Latest low-carb diet Stories

By The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - The Atkins diet might have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.A bigger surprise: The low-carb diet improved cholesterol more than the other two. Some critics had predicted the opposite."It is a vindication," said Abby Bloch, of the Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins...

By Mike Stobbe ATLANTA - The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low- carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques. A bigger surprise: The low-carb diet improved cholesterol more than the other two. Some critics had predicted the opposite. "It is a vindication," said Abby Bloch of the Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Foundation, a...

By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In motivated people who are overweight and have type 2 diabetes, a low-carbohydrate diet with some caloric restriction has lasting benefits on body weight and blood sugar control, Swedish researchers report. Dr. Jorgen Vesti Nielsen and Dr. Eva A. Joensson from Blekingesjukhuset, Karlshamn, previously reported that 16 obese patients with type 2 diabetes who followed a low carbohydrate diet achieved significantly better diabetes control and...