{"id":203,"date":"2008-07-17T03:19:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/?p=203"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:05:54","slug":"low-carbmediterranean-diets-better-for-weight-loss-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/low-carbmediterranean-diets-better-for-weight-loss-and-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Carb\/Mediterranean Diets Better for Weight Loss AND Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/17\/AR2008071701058.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8230;according to a hot-off-the presses study<\/a> published in the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques&#8230;Average weight loss for those in the low-carb group was 10.3 pounds after two years. Those in the Mediterranean diet lost 10 pounds, and those on the low-fat regimen dropped 6.5.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More surprising were the measures of cholesterol. Critics have long acknowledged that an Atkins-style diet could help people lose weight but feared that over the long term, it may drive up cholesterol because it allows more fat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the low-carb approach seemed to trigger the most improvement in several cholesterol measures, including the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL, the &#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol. For example, someone with total cholesterol of 200 and an HDL of 50 would have a ratio of 4 to 1. The optimum ratio is 3.5 to 1, according to the American Heart Association.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Doctors see that ratio as a sign of a patient&#8217;s risk for hardening of the arteries. &#8220;You want that low,&#8221; Stampfer said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The ratio declined by 20 percent in people on the low-carb diet, compared to 16 percent in those on the Mediterranean and 12 percent in low-fat dieters.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/action\/cookieAbsent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The full study can be found at the New England Journal of Medicine site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;according to a hot-off-the presses study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,18,24,29],"tags":[173,374,806,1002,1859,1086,1863,1867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8033,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/8033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}