February 6, 2009, Newsletter Issue #154: Calories on Atkins diet

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The ability of Atkins dieters to eat *unlimited* amounts of calories is one of major dieting misconceptions. Atkins diet require counting only carb grams while indeed not watching portions and calories. However, when the calories consumed by Atkins dieters were counted it turned out that the dieters ate less calories than the control group on a regular, "mixed" diet, which happened due to reduced appetite - an attractive effect of many low carb diets.



There's more surprising fact about the Atkins diet. Clinical study showed that even when assigned to diet plan containing 300 more Calories, they still lost more weight than the control group. As it was revealed in a Japanese study, the higher fat intake led to increased metabolic rate at rest. The dieters simply had higher skin temperature thus losing energy in the form of heat.

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