More on the "Atkins Hormone"
- Friday, June 08 2007 @ 09:43 PM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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Or, Why low-carb works, continued. From ChemistryWorld--The Atkins hormone:
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.