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...figure the low-carb message has to be too good to be true. Certainly that's what we've heard over and over from the medical and nutritional establishments, which still maintain that the healthiest way to lose weight is to adopt a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. But Atkins, who died earlier this year after a fall, may yet get the last laugh. Two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that there may be more health benefits to a low-carb diet than mainstream researchers had previously thought possible...
...pays to tell people what they want to hear. Witness the continuing popularity of the Atkins diet, the granddaddy of nearly all the low-carbohydrate, high-protein regimens clamoring to banish your love handles. Here's a plan that promises you can eat pork rinds and Brie and still lose weight. Dr. Robert Atkins' books have sold some 15 million copies over the past 30 years, and his potential audience just keeps growing. More than 60% of American adults are overweight or obese, according to the latest estimates...
...results are preliminary but nevertheless intriguing. In both studies, test subjects who followed a low-carb diet lost at least twice as much weight as those on a conventional high-carb, low-fat diet after six months. Even at that, the average weight loss for the low-carb dieters, all of whom were obese, was a modest 13 lbs. in the first NEJM study and 15 lbs. in the second. Forty percent of the subjects dropped out of the experiments before completing them. Both studies also showed that the Atkins-style diet boosted the levels of high-density lipoprotein...
...reach for those pork rinds just yet. While the new studies showed an initial benefit, the advantages gradually disappeared over the long term. After a year, folks on the low-carb diet had regained much more weight than those on low-fat diets. And as Dr. Dean Ornish--on the opposite side of many a debate with Atkins--points out, you would expect HDL levels to go up with a low-carb diet, since HDL acts as a kind of dump truck for scavenging fatty compounds. It will also take years to determine whether low-carb diets--which stint...
...firms to do so. In France, a law passed in 2001 requires disclosure of top people's pay and severance packages at listed companies, but so far it has disclosed only a few cases of high pay for poor performance. Can legislation put the fat cats on a diet? Recent British shareholder activism has encouraged Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt to prepare a paper looking at excessive board-room remuneration awards, but its ultimate recommendations remain uncertain. And in the end clever executives and accountants could find ways to circumvent legislation. It's up to shareholders to hold...