Low carbohydrate diets may not aid weight loss, Yale and Stanford researchers find.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 April 2003-YALE UNIVERSITY: Low carbohydrate diets may not aid weight loss, Yale and Stanford researchers find(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04102003 New Haven, Conn. -- A new study of low-carbohydrate diets published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association shows that carbohydrate content in a person's diet is not associated with weight loss.

"We found that calorie content and how long you're on the diet are the factors that predict weight loss, and not carbohydrates," said co-author Dawn M. Bravata, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine. "This surprised me, because I thought that eating fewer carbohydrates in a diet might produce more successful weight loss. What wasn't surprising...