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Comment by Peter Kelly ND:
This clinical trial of six months duration showed the low
carbohydrate diet to be both effective and safe. It
showed significant improvement in cardiovascular disease
risk factors.
Effect of 6-month adherence to a very low
carbohydrate diet program.
Am J Med 2002
Jul;113(1):30-6
Westman
EC, Yancy WS, Edman JS, Tomlin KF, Perkins CE.
Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University,
2200 West Main Street, Durham, NC 27705, USA.
ewestman@duke.edu
To determine the
effect of a 6-month very low carbohydrate diet program on body weight and other
metabolic parameters.Fifty-one overweight or obese
healthy volunteers who wanted to lose weight were placed
on a very low carbohydrate diet (<25 g/d), with no
limit on caloric intake. They also received nutritional
supplementation and recommendations about exercise, and
attended group meetings at a research clinic. The
outcomes were body weight, body mass index, percentage of
body fat (estimated by skinfold thickness), serum
chemistry and lipid values, 24-hour urine measurements,
and subjective adverse effects.Forty-one (80%) of the 51
subjects attended visits through 6 months. In these
subjects, the mean (+/- SD)
body weight decreased
10.3% +/- 5.9% (P <0.001) from
baseline to 6 months (body weight reduction of 9.0 +/- 5.3
kg and body mass index reduction of 3.2 +/- 1.9 kg/m(2)).
The mean percentage of body weight that was fat decreased
2.9% +/- 3.2% from baseline to 6 months (P <0.001).
The mean serum bicarbonate level decreased 2 +/- 2.4 mmol/L
(P <0.001) and blood urea nitrogen level increased 2
+/- 4 mg/dL (P <0.001). Serum total cholesterol level
decreased
11 +/- 26 mg/dL (P = 0.006), low-density lipoprotein
cholesterol level decreased 10 +/- 25 mg/dL (P = 0.01),
triglyceride level decreased 56 +/- 45 mg/dL (P <0.001),
high-density lipoprotein (HDL)
cholesterol level increased
10 +/- 8 mg/dL (P <0.001),
and the cholesterol/HDL
cholesterol ratio decreased 0.9 +/- 0.6 units (P <0.001).
There were no serious
adverse effects.
PMID: 12106620 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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professional.
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