Atkins – the superior slimming diet?

Four diets of varying composition, from the high-protein Atkins diet to the balanced educational tool LEARN, showed modest one-year weight-loss results but had no adverse effects. None of the four diets reaches the standard figure of at least 5–10% used to evaluate the success of weight loss treatme...

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Autor principal: Rössner, Stephan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2606991/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482970701333549
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description Four diets of varying composition, from the high-protein Atkins diet to the balanced educational tool LEARN, showed modest one-year weight-loss results but had no adverse effects. None of the four diets reaches the standard figure of at least 5–10% used to evaluate the success of weight loss treatments. It seems reasonable to state that a well-conducted study has shown us that modest weight loss can be achieved in various ways. However, this is no breakthrough demonstrating that one method is superior to any other, and no reason to argue that those in favour of high-protein diets were the first to discover the truth of weight loss programs.
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spelling pubmed-26069912009-01-23 Atkins – the superior slimming diet? Rössner, Stephan Scand J Food Nutr Commentary Four diets of varying composition, from the high-protein Atkins diet to the balanced educational tool LEARN, showed modest one-year weight-loss results but had no adverse effects. None of the four diets reaches the standard figure of at least 5–10% used to evaluate the success of weight loss treatments. It seems reasonable to state that a well-conducted study has shown us that modest weight loss can be achieved in various ways. However, this is no breakthrough demonstrating that one method is superior to any other, and no reason to argue that those in favour of high-protein diets were the first to discover the truth of weight loss programs. CoAction Publishing 2007-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2606991/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482970701333549 Text en © 2007 Taylor & Francis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Atkins – the superior slimming diet?
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