Monday, March 21, 2005
Low-carb Diets Work For Weightloss and Diabetes
New research is shedding light as to why people lose weight so quickly on low-carb diets. A team at Temple University School of Medicine now reports on a study of ten overweight volunteers on a low carb diet for two weeks. Confirming the beliefs of the late Dr. Adkins, the researchers now believe that a high carb intake might stimulate the appetite.
In a study appearing in yesterday's Annals of Internal Medicine, Temple researchers found that people on low-carb regimens such as the Atkins diet spontaneously reduced their calories by 30 per cent despite being offered unlimited helpings of protein-rich, high-fat foods such as red meat.
On average, they cut out 1000 calories a day when restricted to bird-like portions of carbs. This study was funded by the American Diabetes Association and the National Institutes of Health. It is the only trial of The Atkins Diet ever done in a hospital setting where every calorie could be measured.
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