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Old July 17th, 2008, 05:01 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
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Default Low-carb and Mediterranean diets beat low-fat for weight-loss, lipid changes at two years

Troglodytes.

Roger Zoul wrote:
| I posted this yesterday at 7pm, but it never got here. Listen to the
| ADA (still nut-jobs).
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| Beer-Sheva, Israel - Both a low-carbohydrate diet or a
| Mediterranean-style diet may be "effective alternatives" to a low-fat
| diet, with more favorable effects on lipids and/or glycemic control,
| new research suggests [1]. The two-year study, which managed to keep
| almost 85% of the 322 study participants on one of the three diets
| for the entire period, offers the hope that weight-loss diets can be
| tailored to personal preferences, without sacrificing efficacy,
| researchers say.
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| "Several recent one-year dietary studies have led the American
| Diabetes Association to state in January 2008 that low-carb diets
| should be considered for a maximum of one year," lead author on the
| study, Dr Iris Shai (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva,
| Israel), told heartwire. "The current two-year study suggests that
| one low-fat diet doesn't fit all, meaning that the old paradigm
| should be reconsidered."
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| http://www.theheart.org/viewArticle...._id=tho16jul08