Popular food diets compared, Atkins comes out on top

A group of Stanford researchers have recently completed the largest and longest-ever comparison of four popular food diets, with the lowest-carbohydrates Atkins diet coming out on top. CHP/PCOR associate Randall Stafford provided comments in the LA Times piece here (registration required). The study is also mentioned in two USNews.com articles: "Atkins Diet Wins Kudos in a New Study" and "Still No Perfect Diet." Randall was also interviewed (along with lead author Christopher Gardner, assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center) during a segment on KABC-TV (Los Angeles, March 11). Similar segments also aired on KABB-TV (San Antonio, Texas), KGO-TV, KHOG-TV (Fort Smith, Arkansas), KPIX-TV and WTVM-TV (Columbus, Georgia), KIRO-AM (Seattle, March 12) and Science Friday (NPR, March 9).

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