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1. The study compared the results from both the individual diets themselves and three classes, which included low-carbohydrate (like Atkins), moderate macronutrient (Weight Watchers) and low-fat (Ornish). All of the diets led to reduced caloric intake, and all of them led to weight loss at six months and, to a lesser extent, at 12 months. There was no clear winner, nor any clear loser.

   Where does that leave us? It’s hard to find a take-home message better than this: The best diet is the one that you’re likely to keep. What isn’t helpful is picking a nutritional culprit of bad health and proclaiming that everyone else is eating wrong. There’s remarkably little evidence that that’s true anytime anyone does it.

   I found a better take-home message. All of these shun sugar and refined grains. Weight Watchers points out that they don’t use calories anymore, neither does a low carb diet (for the most part.)

   Ornish does insist red meat is bad and smugly points out that we are saving the planet from global warming by not eating red meat. His politics is tainting the results of real science.

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