THE WASHINGTON POST

November 5, 2002


In a head-to-head comparison between two popular and distinctly different eating plans, the Atkins diet trimmed significantly more pounds and body fat in obese but otherwise healthy women than a traditional low-fat diet, according to a report released last week at the annual meeting of the American Dietetics Association.

The study enrolled 53 women, aged 31 to 59, for six months. Half followed a low-fat approach, eating 30 percent of calories from fat.

The other half ate according to the very-low-carbohydrate diet popularized by physician Robert Atkins.

Those in the Atkins group shed on average 18.5 pounds - about 10 from body fat. (The rest was due to loss of water and lean muscle.) By comparison, the low-fat group lost about nine pounds, about five of them from body fat.


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