Fitness & weight

Low-carb dieters knew it all along Last week, the popular carb-slashing Atkins diet received a dollop of endorsement from two new studies after years of being pooh-poohed by health specialists. The studies, published Tuesday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, showed that the meat- and fat-rich regimen caused faster weight loss in the short [...]

Hold That Stretch: Warm-Up Is Challenged Now a major study is stirring renewed discussion about when stretching is and is not beneficial. The study, a review of six decades of research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that stretching does little to prevent injury during exercise when done outside of a warm-up. [...]

Wow – sometimes research provides good news. FITNESS: Study finds no evidence stretching prevents injuries People who stretched were no more or less likely to suffer injuries such as pulled muscles, which the increased flexibility that results from stretching is supposed to prevent, researchers found. And the injuries found in the study typically happened within [...]

You probably saw this on TV or read this in the newspapers. The Post-Atkins Low Carb Diet The level of saturated fat that is permitted in the Atkins diet is still more than in other low-carbohydrate diets, and 60 percent of calories are still supposed to come from fat, although trans fats are not permitted. [...]