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The food given to the test subjects was freshly prepared under a special recipe developed by Greene at Marino’s, an Italian restaurant in North Cambridge.
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.
“The results were different than expected from the Classical Nutrition theory, however, I don’t believe it violates the laws of thermodynamics, rather there is more than one way for calories to leave the body,” said Greene, counting excretion and perspiration as...