Atkin's Low Carb Diet

In the largest head-to-head study of competing diets so far, low-carb plans such as the Atkins diet turned out to be safe and effective for losing weight and improving cardiovascular health -- at least in the short run.

In fact, women who aggressively restricted carbs lost nearly twice as much weight over six months as women on higher-carb diets, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported Wednesday.

The bad news: Even those on the Atkins plan, which outscored three competing diets, were down only 10.4 pounds after a year. And on every plan, by the end of the study, most dieters were slowly but surely regaining the weight they had lost.

Source : Chicago Tribune

I tried the Atkin's diet but I seem to have put on more than I lost!!