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Old July 17th, 2008, 12:34 AM 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

Been doing the happy dance ever since I heard this on the evening news.
They emphasized the improvement in cholesterol. I'm so tired of people
whining about what they can't eat because they have to watch their
cholesterol and it's always fat. They'll have to excuse us long time low
carbers for gloating a bit.

Roger Zoul wrote:
| 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. "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."
|
| http://www.theheart.org/viewArticle...._id=tho16jul08