What Is The Atkins Diet

The much maligned Atkins diet has won first place in a rigorous nationwide study of four popular weight-loss systems. Researchers at Stanford University followed 311 women and found that those on the low-carbohydrate, high-fat Atkins diet lost almost twice as much weight in one year as women on the Zone diet, the Ornish diet, and the LEARN diet. More importantly, researchers say, women on the Atkins diet had the greatest reduction in blood pressure and the greatest increase in good cholesterol. Read more »