It took the medical/dietary establishment about 30 years to check this out, but it seems that they may have been wrong all along:

Now, a small but carefully controlled study offers a strong hint that maybe Atkins was right: People on low-carb, high-fat diets actually can eat more.

While I do not think that the Atkins plan is all it's cracked up to be -- any diet that severely limits fruits isn't going to be terribly healthy -- the philosophy is very sound. I lost a lot of weight and kept it off by eliminating "unneeded" carbs from by diet, as well as eating less and exercising regularly. It's a life change, though, not a "diet" in the popular sense; I won't be eating pizzas and burgers and fries except on very rare occasions for the rest of my life.

Over the course of the study, they consumed an extra 25,000 calories. That should have added up to about seven pounds. But for some reason, it did not.

"There does indeed seem to be something about a low-carb diet that says you can eat more calories and lose a similar amount of weight," Greene said.

Here's what you need to do: instead of buying "low fat" foods, look for high carbs and calories. Anything where sugar is the first ingredient should be eliminated right away, and that includes corn syrup, which is what is used most of the time. Use common sense, and get some regular aerobic exercise, and the weight will eventually come off.

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