March 2/Philadelphia/The Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada) -- A low-fat diet will help weight loss. Or is it a low-carbohydrate diet? Pore over decades of research and dozens of studies over this debate, and no clear winner emerges.
Gary D. Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education and professor of Medicine and Public Health at Temple University in Philadelphia and his colleagues published a widely circulated study in August that followed 307 dieters and concluded either a low-fat or low-carb diet can help weight loss efforts, but a low-carb diet is, perhaps, better for "good cholesterol" values -- or HDL.