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Another weight loss study was published this week. This one, partly funded by Atkins Research Foundation, pitted a low-fat diet against a Mediterranean diet against an Atkins-like diet. The news has either declared Atkins the winner, or that they all worked, or that they all failed.

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At the end of the two year mark, the overall weight losses among the 322 participants, respectively, were:

[Low-fat] −2.9 kg [±4.2] —7.3 pounds

[Moderate fat Mediterranean] −4.4 kg [±6.0] —10.1 pounds

[Low carbohydrate Atkins like] −4.7 kg [±6.5] —12.1 pounds

In other words, they lost one to 1.5 ounces a week by dieting for 2 years, with a difference of less than 4[sic - should be 5] pounds between the various diets after 2 years. Clinically, this is insignificant. But that's not the full story.

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Since the first low-calorie diet book was published nearly a century ago, diet doctors have come up with every imaginable gimmick for reducing calories, manipulating macronutrients in every conceivable way. If anything was truly effective, after nearly a century, there would be no diet industry and everyone would be slim.

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