Men on a low carbohydrate diet lost nearly twice as much weight as those on a low fat diet -- 17.6 pounds versus 9.7 pounds -- despite eating Read the entire article | Email this article

People randomly assigned to either a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet for one year had lower scores for anxiety and depression than people who were randomly assigned to a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet according to a 2009 study from Australia.

Both groups lost an average of 30 lbs after one year.

“In conclusion, we found that despite similar weight loss after energy-restricted [high-fat, low-carb] and [low-fat, high-carb] diets for 12 months and rapid improvements in mood during the first 8 weeks with both diets, over the long term many of the benefits regressed in the [high-fat, low-carb] diet group such that participants on the [low-fat, high-carb] diet achieved better outcomes,” the authors of the study concluded.

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After one year, overweight people on a low-fat diet lost a similar amount of weight as those on a low-carbohydrate diet (11.7 lbs vs 13.2 lbs) according to a study from researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, USA.

“In this 12-month weight loss diet study, there was no significant difference in weight change between a healthy low-fat diet vs a healthy low-carbohydrate diet, and neither genotype pattern nor baseline insulin secretion was associated with the dietary effects on weight loss,” the authors of the study concluded.

“In the context of these 2 common weight loss diet approaches, neither of the 2 hypothesized predisposing factors was helpful in identifying which diet was better for whom.”

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In this video clip, Michael Eades, MD, author of Protein Power and other low carb books, tells about the Anti-Coronary Club Trial that was done in the In this trial which was launched in the late-1950’s men were assigned to eat a Prudent Diet group which reduced saturated fat and increased polyunsaturated fat and reduced overall fat intake and compared the number of heart attacks and deaths to a control group.

In this trial, men were assigned to eat a Prudent Diet which reduced saturated fat and increased polyunsaturated fat and reduced overall fat intake, and compared the number of heart attacks and deaths to a group of men in the control group who were not asked to change their diet.

After some period of time there were
26 total deaths in the Prudent Diet group
versus only
6 total deaths in the control group.

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Women assigned to diet-plus-exercise lost an average of 10.8% after one year, losing an average of 19.6 lbs, dropping from roughly 181 lbs down to 162 lbs according to a recent study from the U.S. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women assigned to diet-only lost an average of 8.5% after one year, losing an average of 15.6 lbs, dropping from roughly 185 lbs down to 169 lbs according to a recent study from the U.S. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women assigned to exercise-only lost an average of 2.4% after one year, losing an average of 4.4 lbs, dropping from roughly 184 lbs down to 180 lbs according to a recent study from the US. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women assigned to a control group in which no changes to diet or exercise were suggested lost an average of 0.8% after one year, losing an average of 1.5 lbs, dropping from roughly 185 lbs down to 184 lbs according to a recent study from the U.S. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women assigned to diet-plus-exercise, who exercised less than 22 minutes per day, 7 days per week (less than 154 minutes per week) lost an average of 9.6% after one year, losing an average of 17.6 lbs, dropping from roughly 183 lbs down to 165 lbs according to a recent study from the U.S. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women assigned to diet-plus-exercise, who exercised 22 to 28 minutes per day, 7 days per week (154 to 196 minutes per week) lost an average of 12.7% after one year, losing an average of 23.1 lbs, dropping from roughly 182 lbs down to 159 lbs according to a recent study from the U.S. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women assigned to diet-plus-exercise, who exercised 28 minutes per day or more, 7 days per week (196 minutes per week or more) lost an average of 12.9% after one year, losing an average of 23.1 lbs, dropping from roughly 180 lbs down to 157 lbs according to a recent study from the U.S. Read the entire article | Email this article

People assigned to eat diets with a different composition of protein (15% vs 25%), fat (20% vs 40%) and carbohydrates (35% to 65%), but the same number of calories, lost the same amount of weight and same amount of fat according to a recent study from researchers at Harvard University. The average weight loss was 13.9 lbs after six months which was similar in all the diet groups, with 9.2 lbs coming from body fat, and 4.6 lbs coming from lean body mass (muscle) "with no differences between 25% and 15% protein, 40% and 20% fat, or 65% and 35% carbohydrate." Read the entire article | Email this article

"Advice to eat low-fat diets, especially low in saturated fat and cholesterol... has no basis whatever," writes Joel M. Kauffman, PhD, the author of Malignant Medical Myths: Why Medical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year, and How to Protect Yourself.
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People assigned to eat a low-calorie diet of 1000-1200 calories per day lost nearly twice as much weight loss as those assigned to limit their fat intake to 22-26 grams per day according to a 1999 study by Jean Harvey-Berino from the University of Vermont.

Those assigned to the low-caloried diet lost an average of 24.6 lbs after six months versus 13.4 lbs for those assigned to the fat-restricted diet. Read the entire article | Email this article

People assigned to eat a low-calorie diet of 1000-1200 calories per day lost nearly twice as much weight loss after six months as those assigned to limit their fat intake to 22-26 grams per day -- 24.6 lbs vs 13.4 lbs -- and also maintained a much greater weight loss after 18 months -- 16.5 lbs vs 4 lbs -- according to a 1999 study by Jean Harvey-Berino from the University of Vermont. Read the entire article | Email this article

A high-protein, reduced-fat diet causes more weight loss and more belly fat loss than a moderate-protein reduced-fat diet according to the always interesting research group from Denmark which includes Arnie Astrup and S. Toubro. Read the entire article | Email this article

People lost twice as much weight after three months and six months on a high-protein, low-carb diet than a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, but the difference in weight loss was not significantly different after one year according to the first randomized, controlled trial of a low-carb diet that was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Read the entire article | Email this article

"Participants on a low-carbohydrate diet had more favorable overall outcomes at one-year than did those on a conventional [low-fat] diet," concludes a new study conducted at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. People who were assigned to follow a low-carb diet maintained a weight loss of 11.2 pounds after one-year compared to a weight loss of 6.8 pounds for people who were assigned to follow a low-fat diet. The difference in weight loss between the groups was not statistically significant, however there still was an 80 percent chance that this difference in weight loss was due to the diet. Some articles have concluded that this study shows that low-carb diets are no better than low-fat diets, however this was not the conclusion of the study. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women lose twice as much weight -- 18.7 lbs vs 8.6 lbs -- and twice as much body fat -- 10.6 lbs vs 4.4 lbs -- on a low-carbohydrate diet as a low-fat diet according to a recent study. Read the entire article | Email this article

Patients eating a low-carbohydrate group lost nearly twice as much weight as those in the low-fat group. Those in the low-carb group lost an average of 26.4 pounds versus 14.3 pounds for those in the low-fat group. Read the entire article | Email this article

Twenty native Hawaiians lost an average of 17.2 pounds in three weeks or 6.4 percent of their body weight by following a traditional Hawaiian diet according to a 1991 study (Shintani et al, 1991). Read the entire article | Email this article

A 10 percent reduction in dietary fat causes obese people to lose an average of roughly 11 pounds according to a recent paper. Read the entire article | Email this article

A high-soy-protein, low-fat diet causes more weight loss than lifestyle education according to a study from Germany. Read the entire article | Email this article

Low fat diets cause an average weight loss of 5.5 pounds according to a recent review by Arnie Astrup of sixteen low-fat studies. Read the entire article | Email this article

Patients who underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass weight loss surgery lost a similar amount of weight whether they were following a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet or a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet according to a new study from researchers at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women following an "Atkins diet for a year not only lost more weight than the [women following The Zone diet, a low-fat diet or a balanced diet], but also experienced the most benefits in terms of cholesterol and blood pressure," according to a year-long study from Stanford University published in the March 7th, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women on a low-carbohydrate Atkin’s diet lost roughly 10 lbs after one year vs 4-6 lbs for those on three other diets. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women on a low carbohydrate lost an additional 7 pounds of body weight and 12 pounds of body fat in four months compared to women on a low calorie, low fat diet according to a recent study. Read the entire article | Email this article

Men lose roughly 1.5 times more weight (22 lbs vs 14.5 lbs) and nearly twice as much fat (18 lbs vs 10 lbs) with a low-carb diet versus a high-carb diet according to a study from Australia. Read the entire article | Email this article

People who ate a low-carbohydrate diet without any calories restrictions for two years lost an average of 12.1 lbs compared to 10.1 pounds for those eating a calorie-restricted Mediterranean-diet and 7.3 pounds for those who followed a calorie-restricted low-fat diet according to a study conducted by researchers from Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, the Institute of Laboratory Medicine at the University Hospital Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany and from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Read the entire article | Email this article

Among the 45 women who completed the two-year study comparing a low-carbohydrate diet to a Mediterranean diet to a low-fat diet, women following a Mediterranean diet lost an average of 13.6 pounds versus 5.3 pounds for those on the low-carbohydrate diet and only 0.2 pounds for those assigned to the low-fat diet. Read the entire article | Email this article

Among the 277 men in the two-year study comparing a low-carbohydrate diet to a Mediterranean diet to a low-fat diet, men following a low-carbohydrate diet lost an average of 10.8 pounds versus 8.8 pounds for those following the Mediterranean diet versus 7.5 pounds for those assigned to the low-fat diet. Read the entire article | Email this article

A Mediterranean diet is better for reducing blood sugar levels in diabetics than a low-carbohydrate or low-fat diet according to a two-year study comparing a low-carbohydrate diet to a Mediterranean diet to a low-fat diet.


Among the 36 diabetics who completed the study, those following a Mediterranean diet had the greatest reduction in blood sugar levels (-33 mg per deciliter) versus an increase of +1 mg per deciliter for those in the low-carbohydrate group and an increase of +12 mg per deciliter in the low-fat group.

Comment: The lack of reduction in blood sugar in the low-carbohydrate group after two years is probably because they were not restricting carbohydrates as much as they did during the first year. At the end of the first year, blood sugar levels in the low-carbohydrate group had fallen by -18 mg per deciliter versus -23 mg per deciliter for the Mediterranean diet group. Read the entire article | Email this article

"It is possible to achieve and maintain long-term weight loss using a low-carbohydrate diet," concludes a paper from researchers at Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Read the entire article | Email this article

People assigned to follow a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet containing about 30 percent fewer calories than normal lost slightly more weight than people assigned to follow a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet according to a study from Australia. Read the entire article | Email this article

People lost as much weight with a high-fat diet as a low-fat, high-protein diet according to a study from the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, Australia. Read the entire article | Email this article

It is easier to maintain weight loss by eating a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet than by trying to follow a fixed low-calorie diet according to a recent study. Read the entire article | Email this article

A low fat, high fiber diet can cause spontaneous weight loss according to a recent study. Read the entire article | Email this article

People eating a low-calorie, low-fat diet that contained sugar, to make it more palatable, lost an average of 5.2 percent of their bodyweight in three months according to a new study from England. Read the entire article | Email this article

Greater weight loss is associated with people reducing the variety of fats, oils, sweets and high-fat foods, and increasing the variety of low-fat breads according to a study from Brown University. Read the entire article | Email this article