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News & Views: You don’t need to go low-car to burn body fat, study says
Posted on August 17, 2015 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: MD Final Project, MD Unit5, Metabolic Disease | | Add comment |

Mahafreen H. Mistry/NPR

Popular advice suggests a low-carb diet is necessary to trigger the body to shed fat. But a small, rigorous study published in the journal Cell Metabolism finds low-fat diets also spark body-fat loss. The key: Choose a diet you’ll stick to.

Read more at NPR.org.