Low-carbohydrate diets, including the modified Atkins diet (mAD), are commonly used to promote weight loss, improve exercise performance, and treat refractory epilepsy inherited metabolism disorders. However, effects of high-fat-low-carbohydrate on physiology healthy subjects still need further study. We evaluated physiological influence mAD cardiopulmonary results in adult subjects. Ten volunt...

OBJECTIVEdTo study the effects of high-protein versus high-carbohydrate diets on various metabolic end points (glucoregulation, oxidative stress [dichlorofluorescein], lipid peroxidation [malondialdehyde], proinflammatory cytokines [tumor necrosis factor-a and interleukin-6], adipokines, and resting energy expenditure [REE]) with high protein–low carbohydrate (HP) and high carbohydrate–low prot...

OBJECTIVE The recent literature suggests that high-protein, low-fat diets promote a greater degree of weight loss compared to high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets, but the mechanism of this enhanced weight loss is unclear. This study compared the acute, energy-cost of meal-induced thermogenesis on a high-protein, low-fat diet versus a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet. METHODS Ten healthy, normal w...