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A Hormone that explains the fat-burning effect of the Atkins Advantage program

A Randomized Study Comparing the Effects of a Low-Carbohydrate Diet and a Conventional Diet on Lipoprotein Subfractions and C-Reactive Protein Levels in Patients with Severe Obesity

Study out of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Drexel University College of Medicine compared the effects of a low-carbohydrate diet and a low fat diet on lipoprotein subfractions and inflammation on severely obese subjects.

Are You Ready for Summer? 10 Ways to Lose Weight and Keep it Off

Ask the Nutritionist: A Weighty Question

Body Shape and How to Change It

Are you an apple or a pear? Where your body stores excess fat can make a difference to your health.

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Children, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome

“Syndrome X, also known as the ‘insulin resistance syndrome,’ may be the surest route to a heart attack. It is as powerful a predictor of coronary heart disease as elevated LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol, if not more so.”—Dr. Gerald Reaven MORE

Comparison of the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone Diets for Weight Loss and Heart Disease Risk Reduction: a Randomized Trial

A single-center randomized trial at an academic medical center in Boston, Mass., studied the health effects of popular diets in overweight or obese adults (mean body mass index of 35; range, 27-42) aged 22 to 72 years with known hypertension, poor cholesterol profiles or high fasting blood sugar. A total of 160 participants were randomly assigned to either the Atkins, Zone, Weight Watchers or Ornish diet groups.

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Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN diets for change in weight and related risk factors among overweight premenopausal women: the A TO Z Weight Loss Study: a randomized trial.

Study out of Stanford University Medical School compared four weight-loss diets representing a spectrum of low to high carbohydrate intake for effects on weight loss and related metabolic variables. MORE

Could we have been wrong about exercise and weight loss?

Diets High in Fructose Inhibits the Appetite Hormone

Effect of 6-Month Adherence to a Very Low Carbohydrate Diet Program

Study out of Duke University Division of General Internal Medicine determined the effect of a six month very low carbohydrate diet program on body weight and other metabolic parameters.

Effects of a carbohydrate-restricted diet on emerging plasma markers for cardiovascular disease

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Abstract (provisional)

Background

Increasing evidence supports carbohydrate restricted diets (CRD) for weight loss and improvement in traditional markers for cardiovascular disease (CVD); less is known regarding emerging CVD risk factors. We previously reported that a weight loss intervention based on a CRD (% carbohydrate:fat:protein = 13:60:27) led to a mean weight loss of 7.5 kg and a 20% reduction of abdominal fat in 29 overweight men. This group showed reduction in plasma LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides and elevations in HDL-cholesterol as well as reductions in large and medium VLDL particles and increases in LDL particle size. In this study we report on the effect of this intervention with and without fiber supplementation on plasma homocysteine, lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)], C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha).

Effects of Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Versus Low-Fat Diet on Flow-Mediated Dilation

Previously the authors of this study reported that a carbohydrate-restricted diet improved many of the traditional markers associated with metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk when compared with a low-fat diet. In this study, they extend their work to address the concerns of fasting and post-meal vascular function in 40 overweight men and women with moderately high triglycerides who were randomly assigned to consume either a low-fat diet or a low-carbohydrate diet.

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Escaping the Fat Trap

Fortunately, the Atkins Nutritional Approach™ offers the key to unlatch the trap—in the form of the biochemical process called lipolysis.

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How to Follow Phase Two, Part 1

How to Follow Phase Two, Part 2

Insulin secretion predicts success of fat loss

Low-Carb, Higher-Fat Diets Add No Arterial Health Risks to Obese People Seeking to Lose Weight

Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies Evaluating the Association of Saturated Fat with Cardiovascular Disease

The objective of this meta-analysis was to summarize the evidence related to the association of dietary saturated fat with risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease inclusive of stroke) in prospective epidemiologic studies.

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New Study on Low Carb Diet and Mood

Personal Bias or Science?

Phase 1: Induction

Physiogenomic analysis of weight loss induced by dietary carbohydrate restriction

Pilot 12-Week Weight-Loss Comparison: Low-Fat versus Low-Carbohydrate (Ketogenic) Diets

Study out of Harvard University recruited twenty-one participants who were randomly assigned to separate diets for 12 weeks: a low fat diet and two different low carbohydrate diets, one allowing 300 more calories a day. MORE

Premenopausal Women Following a Low-Carbohydrate/High-Protein Diet Experience Greater Weight Loss and Less Hunger Compared to a High-Carbohydrate/Low-Fat Diet

Protect Your Weight Loss

Once you've reached your goal weight, know that if you regain some pounds, returning briefly to an earlier phase can banish the problem.

Randomized Trial of a Low-Carbohydrate Diet for Obesity

Study out of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Washington University School of Medicine randomly assigned participants to either a low-carbohydrate, high-protein, high-fat diet or a low-calorie, high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet. MORE

Resistance training and dietary protein: effects on glucose tolerance and contents of skeletal muscle insulin signaling proteins in older persons1,2,3

Results are not typical

What do we mean when we say “Results not typical. Individual results will vary”?

Saturated Fat, Carbohydrate, and Cardiovascular Disease

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health reported that the evidence that supports a reduction in saturated fat intake must be evaluated in the context of replacement by other macronutrients. An independent association of saturated fat intake with cardiovascular disease risk has not been consistently shown in prospective epidemiologic studies, although some have provided evidence of an increased risk in young individuals and in women. However, replacement with a higher carbohydrate intake, particularly refined carbohydrate, can exacerbate the atherogenic dyslipidemia associated with insulin resistance and obesity that includes increased triglycerides, small LDL particles and reduced HDL cholesterol.
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Short-Term Effects of Severe Dietary Carbohydrate-Restriction Advice in Type 2 Diabetes--a Randomized Controlled Trial

This study sought to examine the effects of a three-month program of 102 patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes to following dietary advice to restrict carbohydrate intake compared with following advice to reduce portions and restrict fat. Weight loss was greater in the low-carbohydrate group. MORE

THE ATKINS ADVANTAGE: "Back On Top"

The Atkins Nutritional Approach: Getting Started, Staying Focused

The Crucial Phase of Pre-Maintenance

The Effects of Low-Carbohydrate Versus Conventional Weight Loss Diets in Severely Obese Adults: One-Year Follow-up

Study out of the Veterans Administration Hospital assigned obese adults randomly to either a restricted carbohydrate diet or a low fat diet. MORE

The Inconvenient Truth About Carbohydrates

The history of science is filled with brilliant discoveries that were not warmly welcomed. In fact, it’s almost a truism that it takes about 50 years before a revolutionary concept is truly accepted by the mainstream, particularly when that concept challenges prevailing dogma. MORE

The Most Effective Weight Loss Diet: And the winner is….

The Role Insulin Plays in Obesity

Too much of this hormone may well be the reason you can't lose weight. MORE

The Role of Energy Expenditure in the Differential Weight Loss in Obese Women on Low-Fat and Low-Carbohydrate Diets

Study out of the University of Cincinnati assigned obese, healthy women to follow either a low carbohydrate or low fat diet for four months. Both groups were given nutrition counseling and were instructed to record energy expenditure using a pedometer. MORE

The Rules of Induction

Two Studies Shed Light on Weight Loss

Two brand new studies offer some interesting insights on how people lose weight as well as how to overcome the challenge of keeping it off successfully. MORE

Weight Loss and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Healthy Women on a Low Carbohydrate Diet or a Low Fat Diet

Study out of the University of Cincinnati instructed obese women to follow either a low fat, calorie restricted diet or a low carbohydrate diet for six months.

Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean or Low-Fat diet.

In this two-year trial, 322 moderately obese subjects (86 percent of them male, with a mean age of 52 years and a mean body-mass index of 31) to one of three diets: low-fat, restricted-calorie; Mediterranean, restricted-calorie; or low-carbohydrate, non-restricted-calorie. MORE

What Induction Can Do For You

WHAT IS THE METABOLIC SYNDROME AND DO YOU HAVE IT?

METABOLIC SYNDROME AND HEART DISEASE: WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?
Are you looking a little apple-shaped these days? You may have never heard of metabolic syndrome but if your waist is bigger than your hips, you might have it. And the condition is intimately linked to heart disease as well as diabetes. Find out what it is, how to prevent it and—if you already have it—how to treat it.

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