Nutrition
- August 2, 2010
Is Your Diet Depriving You of Nutrients?
A very interesting study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition this month, analyzing the amount of vitamins and minerals people were getting on each of four diets - Atkins, Zone, LEARN (essentially the Food Pyramid) and Ornish (low-fat). Women were randomly assigned to one of these groups, with about 75 in each group. After 8 weeks, they figured out the vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients that each group was eating. Noting that each group was eating less food, you might expect that people were getting less of each vitamin - or you might think that if they were being encouraged to eat a healthy diet, they would be getting more. But it really depended upon which group they were in. Here are some of the results I found most interesting: Read Full PostIs Your Diet Depriving You of Nutrients? originally appeared on About.com Low Carb Diets on Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 06:00:00.Permalink | Comment | Email this
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