Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time : So Is Cardio, and There’s a Better Way to Have the Body You Want

by John Jaquish

Stanford researchers compared the extremely low-carb, high-fat, high-protein Atkins Diet to other more conventional diet protocols and concluded those who were assigned to “the Atkins diet, which had the lowest carbohydrate intake, lost more weight and experienced more favorable overall metabolic effects at 12 months than women assigned to follow the Zone, Ornish, or LEARN diets.”96