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Expert Resistance to Atkins Diet Continues to Fall

  • November 18, 2003

Mayo Clinic has just published a study showing that patients with heart disease lose weight on a high-fat, no-grain Atkins-style diet followed for six weeks. The study took 23 obese patients with documented coronary artery disease. All of the patients were being treated with cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs, but no changes were made to their drugs or the dosing during the study. The people on the test diet dropped a significant 5.2 percent of their total body weight and reduced their...