Women Do Best with Mediterranean Diet, Men with Low-Carb

The most encouraging news in this interesting piece by Tara Parker-Pope is that the long-secret nuclear research center in Dimona, Israel has been put to its best use yet: the desert facility was the site of a recent research project that looked at the results of three diets–low-carbs, Mediterranean, and Atkins.
The bottom line(s):
Parker-Pope reports that the biggest weight loss happened in the first five months of the diet —
low-fat and Mediterranean dieters lost about 10 pounds, and
low-carbohydrate dieters lost 14 pounds. By the end of two years, low-fat dieters showed a net loss of six
pounds, and the Mediterranean and low-carbohydrate dieters both lost
about 10 pounds.Men did better on the low-carbohydrate diets, losing 11 pounds compared with about 9 pounds for the Mediterranean diet. Women fared best on the Mediterranean diet, losing about 14 pounds compared with about 5  pounds on the low-carbohydrate plan.
Read more from Tara Parker-Pope in the New York Times.