Atkins wins...or does it...

NEJM published a new study comparing low carb to low fat to Mediterranean diets in their effectiveness in promoting weight-loss and improved lipid regulation. In short, those assigned to the low carb diet lost more weight and saw better lipid numbers than the others. The study is here:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/3/229


Dean Ornish, the king advocate of low-fat diets, argues that the "low-fat diet" in the study was hardly low fat at all, and that the "low carb" diet encouraged more non-meat choices than the traditional Atkins-type low carb diet. In other words, the source of the group differences reported in NEJM may be factors that aren't reflected in the labels that the groups were given. Ornish's comments are here:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/146641