{"id":45100,"date":"2014-09-02T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45100"},"modified":"2014-09-02T17:21:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T21:21:14","slug":"low-carb-diet-linked-to-greater-weight-loss-than-low-fat-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2014\/09\/02\/low-carb-diet-linked-to-greater-weight-loss-than-low-fat-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Carb Diet Linked to Greater Weight Loss Than Low-Fat Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A low-carbohydrate diet is associated with greater weight reduction than a low-fat diet among obese adults, according to an <a href=\"http:\/\/annals.org\/article.aspx?articleid=1900694\"><em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em> study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 150 obese adults who were otherwise healthy were randomized to eat either a low-fat (&lt;30% fat) or low-carbohydrate (&lt;40 g\/day of digestible carbohydrates) diet. Participants were provided diet-specific handbooks with recipes and meal-planning tips in addition to a daily meal-replacement shake or bar.<\/p>\n<p>At 12 months, the low-carb group had lost 3.5 kilograms more than the low-fat group, even though caloric intakes were similar. The low-carb group also saw greater improvements in body composition, CRP levels, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides.<\/p>\n<p><em>NEJM Journal Watch Cardiology<\/em> editor-in-chief Harlan Krumholz comments: &#8220;This study, a welcome trial in an area where we need them, supports the new conventional wisdom that low carb is better than low fat for losing weight \u2014 what we do not yet know is which diet is better for lowering risk. That information will require larger trials with much longer follow-up \u2014 but we desperately need that information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Background: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwatch.org\/jc201207110000001\/2012\/07\/11\/search-perfect-diet-continues\"><em>NEJM Journal Watch Cardiology<\/em> summary<\/a> on long-term consequences of low-carb diet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A low-carbohydrate diet is associated with greater weight reduction than a low-fat diet among obese adults, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine study. Roughly 150 obese adults who were otherwise healthy were randomized to eat either a low-fat (&lt;30% fat) or low-carbohydrate (&lt;40 g\/day of digestible carbohydrates) diet. Participants were provided diet-specific handbooks with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[297,1452,2363,284],"class_list":["post-45100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-diet","tag-low-carb","tag-low-fat","tag-obesity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}