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Low-carb wins diet face-off
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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 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, the study's main funder.
However, all three approaches -- the low-carb diet; a low-fat diet; and a so-called Mediterranean diet that emphasizes poultry, fish, olive oil and nuts -- achieved weight loss and improved cholesterol.
The study is remarkable because of the huge proportion of people who stuck with the diets -- 85 percent.
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