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Here is the original Mayo Clinic Journal article:
http://www.mayo.edu/proceedings/2003/nov/7811a1.pdf


Here is the reporter's take of the study:
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/...m?pagenumber=1

Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet Drops Weight

Atkins-Like Plan Won't Hurt Cholesterol Levels, but Critics Aren't Impressed

By Sid Kirchheimer
WebMD Medical News
Reviewed By Michael Smith, MD
on Tuesday, November 11, 2003

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Not all are convinced a high-fat diet is the best strategy for the long
term.

"The main reason people lost weight on this diet is because they're
consuming fewer calories than they're used to," says Jen Keller, RD, staff
nutritionist for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a
nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine and a vegetarian
diet.

"It doesn't matter how you lose weight -- you can starve yourself, you can
eat eggs all day, however you do it, if you're eating fewer calories that
you're used to, your blood fats will improve in the short-term," she tells
WebMD. "But a lot of times, when the weight loss plateaus, the benefits in
cholesterol are erased and you're no better off than when you started, and
sometimes worse."

Her group has been a longtime and vocal critic of low-fiber, high-fat diets
such as Atkins, and she is concerned that such eating plans raise the risk
of colon cancer, kidney disease, and other health problems.

Hey, Mr. Kircheimer,
Do you really think it's a good idea to ask a militan vegan/animal
rights group like the "Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine"
for an unbiased opinion on a meat-based diet? Isn't this like asking
a member of Al-Qaida for an "unbiased" opinion of Judaism?







"A new study comes out every day talking about what's the best way to lose
weight. If you look at the world's population, the healthiest and thinnest
people are people who follow a plant-based diet," she says. "As they start
to eat more fats, they gain weight and develop health problems."

In an accompanying editorial, Mayo Clinic cardiologist Gerald Gau, MD, urges
doctors to keep an open mind about these high-fat diets. "But I am concerned
about the long-term cardiovascular risk," he writes. "We should continue to
examine the risk-benefit profile of caloric-restricted, more rational diets
such as the Mediterranean diet, which recently was associated with a
striking decrease in cardiovascular risk."
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SOURCES: Hays, J. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, November 2003; vol 78: pp
1331-1336. Gau, G. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, November 2003; vol 78: pp
1329-1330. American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2003, Orlando,
Fla., Nov. 9-12, 2003. James Hays, MD, endocrinologist, Christiana Care
Health Services, Cardiology Research, Newark, Del. Jen Keller, RD, staff
nutritionist and nutrition projects coordinator, Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine (PCRM), Washington, D.C.
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