March 7, 2007 — Dieters and their clinicians can be reassured that a low-carbohydrate diet is a safe and effective option for losing weight, on the basis of randomized trial results comparing 4 popular diets ranging from low-carbohydrate to low-fat. Results from the Atkins-Traditional-Ornish-Zone (A TO Z) trial found that premenopausal women randomized to the Atkins diet lost statistically more weight than women on the Zone diet, and numerically more than the other 2 diets.
"This isn't the end of the obesity epidemic; this isn't a huge effect," lead author Christopher Gardner, PhD, emphasized to heartwire. "This is a modest weight loss in all four groups and it's a little bigger in the Atkins group, but none of the groups were following their diets well at 12 months.... We had people who lost more than 30 pounds on all four diets, and twice as many did that on Atkins than on the other diets, so it does suggest that you don't necessarily need to follow the low-fat/high-carb diet that we've depended on for 20 years."
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/553258?sssdmh=dm1.253182&src=nldne
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