Atkins beats other diet plans in study
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_on_he_me/diet_atkins_triumph"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070306/capt.1e75b95c2c79469c89ace2d0165da262.diet_atkins_triumph_nyol935.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=N9oncQh9P9vaGX7.raiRMw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Study participant Viola Magnes, who lost roughly 23 pounds during a yearlong study of four diets, poses in Stanford, Calif., Friday, March 2, 2007. Magnes was assigned to the low-carb, high fat Atkins diet group which lost more weight over 12 months than those on the low-carb Zone diet in a study that appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - The low-carb, high-fat Atkins diet gets high marks in one of the biggest, longest head-to-head studies of popular weight-loss plans, beating the Zone, the Ornish diet and even U.S. guidelines. Even so, critics say the results show how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off.</p><br clear="all"/>

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