Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption primarily for weight control. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats.

An outstanding and thorough review of recent research into the efficacy of low-carb diets in treating the Metabolic Syndrome (insulin resistance, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and high triglycerides, and low HDL), even when patients are not overweight. Also discusses Pattern B (small, dense, especially-harmful LDL, and clinical markers).

Eating foods that contain fewer amounts of carbohydrates may help inhibit the progression of prostate cancer, according to researchers at Duke Prostate Center.

Gary Taubes, an investigative science journalist whose new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories attacks the idea of low-fat, high-exercise dieting as scientifically unsound and unsupported by empirical research, tracing the idea back to a nutritional fad that arose 50 years ago.

Since the day in 1972 that cardiologist Robert Atkins first told dieters to swap carbohydrates for steak, cheese, and bacon, low-carb, high-fat diets have inspired endless controversy. The latest salvo comes from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, who reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine that low-carb diets don

Researchers have given the low carb Atkins diet the green signal after years of debating on its potential of increasing the risk of coronary heart disease.