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Comparison of Atkins, Zone,Ornish and Learn Diets For Weight Loss and Related Risk Factors
7 March 2007 | Vanity

Posted on 03/07/2007 5:16:41 AM PST by shrinkermd

This is from the Journal Of American Medical Association published on 7 March 2007. The authors are Christopher D. Gardner, PhD et al and the study was sponsored by Stanford University.

This is a prospective study of these diets. The Atkins Diet is very low carbohydrate. The LEARN DIET is a comprehensive lifestyle, excercise, attitude and relationship approach that includes a diet low in fat and high carbohydrate. The Ornish Diet is very high in carbohydrates. The Zone Diet is low in carbohydrate. These diets are popular and can be easily Googled.

Seventy or more premenopausal women randomly assigned to each diet. They were instructed in the diet over two months and the final determination of efficacy was made at 12 months.

The Atkins diet lost more weight and had more favorable metabolic effects than the other three diets. At the end of 1 year women in the Adkins cohort lost, on the average, 4.7 kilograms (10.4 lbs);the others scaled down from this figure. Similar results were found at 6 months and also for the trigylcerides and other measurements


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To: najida

I've seen no study that finds ketogenic diets are harmful to normal people.


61 posted on 03/07/2007 10:50:00 AM PST by Varda
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To: Varda

No study because it's common knowledge that they can be harmful (ask a diabetic in ketoacidosis).

But you eat whatever you want to darlin'.


62 posted on 03/07/2007 10:52:20 AM PST by najida (One day, a door opens, and you get a chance to start over. But the phone rings......)
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To: Hoodlum91

But they aren't 'long term' successful. Folks go off and on them, but most go off and stay off.

They're the most common of the "I tried it diets". Though I respect SB just a tiny bit more.


63 posted on 03/07/2007 10:53:42 AM PST by najida (One day, a door opens, and you get a chance to start over. But the phone rings......)
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To: najida

Common knowledge isn't good enough. It used to be common knowledge that antibiotics wouldn't help ulcers.


64 posted on 03/07/2007 10:55:17 AM PST by Varda
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To: Varda

Ok,
I can site research, but I really don't want to today.

I'm pretty sure there is nothing I can say or do that will change your mind. So I'm not going to try.

Why bother?
(Yes, this I've learned after many years here.)


65 posted on 03/07/2007 10:59:26 AM PST by najida (One day, a door opens, and you get a chance to start over. But the phone rings......)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

To each his own I guess....but....there has been no other diet that we could live with and still maintain our health.


66 posted on 03/07/2007 11:49:44 AM PST by auto power
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To: najida

I've been following the guidelines for the New American Plate put out by the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) for almost a year now and have lost a lot of weight. The doctor tells me my cholesterol and lipids are "beautiful." I enjoy eating more than I ever have because I'm getting wonderful fresh, non-processed food in whatever quantity I want.


67 posted on 03/07/2007 1:05:38 PM PST by alnick
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To: najida
being an RD AND being on FR was like being a Wiccan at a tent revival.

Lol.

Hey, I'd love more input on threads like these from people with your background. :-)

68 posted on 03/07/2007 1:08:15 PM PST by alnick
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To: alnick

I love the AICR! And yeah, it's the way I try to eat myself (when I stay away from the lemonade machine).

As for posting on these threads more,
LOL! Yeah, maybe.


69 posted on 03/07/2007 1:40:59 PM PST by najida (One day, a door opens, and you get a chance to start over. But the phone rings......)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

“While I do agree that EVERYTHING has a money trail, I cannot except the fact that something that passes across hundreds of peoples desks and dozens of boards and commitees can be accepted and presented to the entire population while knowingly being something that would be harmfull.”

Old thread... but...

What a ridiculous comment.

The government does idiotic things all the time that meet your criteria.

EPA, FDA, Dept of Education, you name it.

Your argument is a logical fallacy - appeal to authority.


70 posted on 06/04/2007 8:29:02 AM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Amnesty alone didn't kill the GOP - socialism did long ago. The stench you smell now is it's corpse.)
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To: najida

“No study because it’s common knowledge that they can be harmful (ask a diabetic in ketoacidosis)”

Dietary ketosis and ketoacidosis are totally different metabolically. Totally different pathways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis


71 posted on 06/04/2007 8:33:21 AM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Amnesty alone didn't kill the GOP - socialism did long ago. The stench you smell now is it's corpse.)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem

“””The government does idiotic things all the time that meet your criteria....””””

Like what?


72 posted on 06/04/2007 9:02:04 AM PDT by HOTTIEBOY (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem

Thanks for reminding me of why I don’t come here anymore ;)


73 posted on 06/04/2007 2:00:37 PM PDT by najida (Just call me a chicken rancher :))
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