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• Yet 11 obese 30-year-olds lost more weight than 12 of their peers on a conventional low-fat diet.
• And they lowered their risk of heart disease.
• They didn't do it with a low-carb diet, but with a slow-carb diet.
• It's what nutritionists call a low-glycemic-load or a low-glycemic-index diet.
• The key is eating plenty of satisfying foods that your body can't quickly convert into sugar --- slow carbs, as they're coming to be called.
• "A diet focused on glycemic index may be easier to follow than diets restricted in either fat or carbs," Ludwig tells WebMD.
• Foods have a higher or lower glycemic index depending on how much of them you eat, how you cook them, and what you eat them with.
• ---At the top --- to be eaten sparingly if at all --- come refined grains, potatoes, and sweets.
• Obese participants in the study were instructed to eat nonstarchy vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, and dairy products.
• They were told to eat carbs with protein and healthful fat at every meal and snack.
• After 12 months on the diets, the slow-carb group lost 7.8 percent of their body weight compared with 6.1 percent in the low-fat-diet group.
• The levels were down 37 percent in the slow-carb group compared with 19 percent in the low-fat group.
• The Ludwig study is far from the first to find benefits for a low-glycemic-load diet, says Jennie Brand-Miller, PhD, professor of human nutrition at the University of Sydney, Australia, and co-author of The Low GI Diet Revolution and other books in The New Glucose Revolution series.
• "This study is telling us that losing weight on a low-GI diet produces better outcomes in terms of heart health than a conventional weight loss diet," Brand-Miller tells WebMD.

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