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Monday, February 15, 2010
A new study indicates that although people on low-carbohydrate diets lost about the same amount of weight as did those on low-fat diets, the low-carb groups were better able to lower their blood pressure.
- Dr. William Yancy of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, studied two groups of dieters for 11 months.
- The people in the low-carb group showed a 6 percent drop in blood pressure.
- Those in the low-fat group had only a 1.5 percent decrease in blood pressure.
- Both groups lost about the same amount of weight.
This study appeared in the
Archives of Internal Medicine.
Labels: low-carb diet, carbs
Posted By: Aspen/CRC
