Contributed by: filbert Friday, June 08 2007 @ 09:43 PM CST
Or, Why low-carb works, continued. From ChemistryWorld–The Atkins hormone[*1] :
They are loved and endorsed by celebrities and dismissed as an unhealthy diet craze by critics. But ‘low carb’, high protein and high fat diets have proven their metabolic worth: scientists in the US have discovered a fat-burning role for a specific hormone stimulated by these eating regimes. The work has also raised the intriguing question of whether the Atkins diet could make you live longer.