High-Fat Diet Shows Promise in Study - Tue Nov 19, 8:30 AM ET - By DANIEL Q. HANEY, AP Medical Editor

CHICAGO (AP) - After years of dismissing the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, the medical establishment is at last putting it to a careful test and finding it might not be the nutritional folly they long assumed.

A small study released Monday found that contrary to expectations, dieters' cholesterol levels do not shoot through the roof, and they take off more weight than do people on a standard low-fat regimen.

"More study is necessary before such a diet can be recommended," said Dr. Eric Westman of Duke University. "However, a concern about serum lipid (cholesterol) elevations should not impede such research."

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