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“The experiment certainly provides evidence [that a low carb diet is effective],” she said.
Greene said the majority of participants were highly concerned about their health and consulted their families and physicians routinely during the experiment.
According to Greene, the experiment tested claims—similar to those of the Atkins diet—that if one eliminates most carbohydrates in one’s diet, the body resorts to using fat stores as a source of fuel. These fat stores are burned through lipolysis, a...
The results of the experiment, which seemingly affirm these assertions, were “surprising,” Greene said, in that those test subjects under the ultra–low carbohydrate diet exhibited a significantly greater weight loss than other participants.
Greene claimed that the no one has ever done this kind of experiment before on an outpatient basis, which she said was made possible by “really, really good” food which kept participants from snacking outside their prescribed diet.