Five clinical trials showed that the Atkins diet led to more weight loss and improved heart disease risk factors compared to low-fat, calorie-restricted diets.

“in the course of writing that article i came upon five studies that had been published that had been finished but not yet published that all been discussed in conferences so i could discuss them in the article which had compared the atkins diet which is a low carbohydrate high fat eat as much as you want diet to the kind of low fat calorie restricted diet the american heart association was pushing and then all five trials the atkins diet not only did people lose more weight but their heart disease risk factors improved”