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Show DAILY Thursday, July 17, 2008 Low-car- Study: diet best b for weight and cholesterol In the cafeteria, the apprct priate foods for each diet were identified with colored dots, green using red for low-fa- t, for Mediterranean and blue for Mike Stobbe THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - ATLANTA The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A lowarb diet and low-car- a Mediterranean-styl- e regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fdiet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-los- s techat niques. As for breakfast and dinner, the dieters were counseled on how to stick to their eating plans and were asked to fill out questionnaires on what they ate, Stampfer said. no more diet The low-fthan 30 percent of calories restricted calories from fat and cholesterol and focused on low-fgrains, vegetables and fruits as options. The Mediterranean diet had similar calorie, fat and cholesterol restrictions, emphasizing poultry, fish, olive oil and nuts. at A bigger surprise: The b diet improved cholesterol more than the other two. Some critics had predicted the oplow-car- posite. "It is a vindication," said Abby Bloch of the DrfRobert C. and Veronica Atkfis Foundation, a philanthropy group that honors the Atkins diet's creator and was the study's main source of funds. The low-car- diet set limits b for carbohydrates, but none for calories or fat. It urged dieters to choose vegetarian However, all three aphe sources of fat and protein. diet, proaches di and a a low-f"So not a lot of butter and Mediterranean diet achieved eggs and cream," said Mad-ely- n Fernstrom, a University weight loss and improved cholesterol. of Pittsburgh Medical Center The study is remarkable weight management expert not only because it lasted two who reviewed the study but years, much longer than most, was not involved in it, but also because of the huge Most of the participants proportion of people who stuck were men; all men and women 85 percent. in the study got roughly equal with the diets Researchers approached amounts of exercise, the the Atkins Foundation with study's authors said. the idea for the study. But the Average weight loss for foundation played no role in those in the group the study's design or reportwas 10.3 pounds after two ing of the results, said the lead years. Those in the Mediterranean diet lost 10 pounds, and author, Iris Shai of those on the low-fUniversity of the Negev. regimen Other experts said the study dropped 6.5. More surprising were the being published Thursday in the New England Journal of measures of cholesterol. Critics Medicine was highly credhave long acknowledged that ible. diet could help an Atkins-styl- e "This is a very good group people lose weight but feared of researchers," said Kelly that over the long term, it may drive up cholesterol because it Brownell, director of Yale University's Rudd Center for Food allows more fat. b But the Policy and Obesity. approach The research was done in seemed to trigger the most ima controlled environment provement in several cholesterol measures, including the ratio an isolated nuclear research of total cholesterol to HDL, facility in Israel. The 322 parthe "good" cholesterol. For ticipants got their main meal of the day, lunch, at a central example, someone with total cholesterol of 200 and an HDL cafeteria. of 50 would have a ratio of 4 to "The workers can't easily just go out to lunch at a nearby 1. The optimum ratio is 3.5 to 1, according to the American Subway or McDonald's," said Dr. Meir Stampfer, the study's Heart Association. Doctors see that ratio as senior author and a professor a sign of a patient's risk for of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public hardening of the arteries. "You want that low," Stampfer said. Health. low-car- b at low-car- n low-car- HERALD SCO "Importantly, the court ruled that Novell has no right to any royalties from UnixWare or OpenServer sales by SCO, which is where the bulk of SCO's revenue is earned." Continued from A I copyrights in that matter be- cause SCO's intellectual prop-- , erty, which is defined as SCO Unix based code or UnixWare, "cannot include SVRX." "Sun obtained the rights to opensource Solaris, and soon as possible." "We are pleased, however, that the court agreed that Novell is not entitled to anywhere near more than $20 million dollars it was seeking," SCO said in the statement. NetWare code. To date, SCO received $ 16.7 million from Microsoft and $1.2 miHion from the other LiOpenServer accounts for s of SCO's Unix revnux customers, which Kimball enues and has thousands of ruled SCO gets to keep. But he also cautioned in customers including small- - to d businesses and large Wednesday's ruling that companies such as McDonald's. "there was no definitive evifederal dence" on whether a buyer of Novell, in a four-da- y a SCO source license was comtrial in late April, argued that SVRX code is found in the lipletely protected." cense agreements SCO struck SCO. in Wednesday's statewith Sun, Microsoft and the ment, described the ruling as other Linux users. That, Novell an "important step forward in the capitalization and reorgaasserts, constitutes a breach of a 1995 sale of the UnixWare nization plan for SCO that will business to SCO's predecessor. allow it to emerge from its The Santa Cruz Operation. Chapter 11 bankruptcy." SCO acquired UnixWare from Ryan Tibbitts, general counsel for SCO, could not immediSanta Cruz! 2001. But, in the case of Microsoft ately be reached for comment on how this ruling will affect and the 22 Linux customers, Kimball found that SCO did a proposed bailout by Stephen not owe Novell any royalties Norris Capital Partners. Norris and a group of Midfor revenues it received from them. dle Eastern investors, who iniThat's because he found tially proposed a $100 million SCO has the authority to enter cash infusion to fund SCO's into new SVRX license agreecomeback, have since backed off that offer and were watchments with Microsoft and those Linux customers if those ing for the verdict to determine how to proceed. Instead agreements were "incidenof lending SCO $95 million to tally" licensed with the latest versions of Unix or UnixWare, fund its ongoing litigation with which belongs to SCO. Unix Novell, IBM and others, Ste mid-size- Race car Continued from A 1 s At BYU, where more than of the students speak languages other than their native tongue, the environment for global collaboration was three-fourth- ripe. "There's probably no other school that has the language capability, the understanding of culture - that has the resources that we have to try and pull off the leadership of this type of project," Jensen said. Jensen's eight students, who together ospeak seven languages including English, all learned their foreign language skills serving missions for The Church of Jesus Saints. The church Christ of Latter-daowns BYU and sends missionaries to y A Ware refers to a combination of Unix SystenrV code and some components of Novell's two-third- received the revenue for granting such rights even though such rights remained with Novell," Kimball wrote in Wednesday's ruling. "Sun has already received the benefits of the agreement and developed and marketed a product based on those benefits. There was also evidence at trial that OpenSolaris directly competed with Novell's interest. The court, therefore, cannot merely void the contract," he wrote. In an statement Wednesday, SCO described the ruling as "an important step in its ability to pursue the appeals to try to get all of its claims heard by a jury as SCO A3 more than 100 countries and territories worldwide. One of the 22 students who brought car parts to Utah is Jose Miguel Olvera. a student at the. Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. "My trip to BYU was a great experience and I liked working with students from around the world," Miguel said in a news release from BYU. "We had a great time all working on a project we wanted to finish well." Two students from Sweden have enrolled at BYU for the summer term. The project, which is sponsored by General Motors and others, aims to teach students the skills needed to become engineers in a global economy. "There's virtually no complex mechanical system that's just built in one location," Jensen said. phen Norris is now looking to buy SCO's assets outright as part of the new deal The company is reviewing Kimball's ruling with its attorneys and will be assessing its next steps. "We continue to disagree with the premise of this trial and believe that Novell is not owed anything, but that they have interfered with SCO's Unix rights," SCO said in the statement. For the past five years, SCO waged a legal battle against IBM, Novell and other advocates of the freely distributed Linux operating system, claiming that it owned the copyrights to Unix. SCO also claimed IBM violated the confidentiality of its copyrights when it took code from Unix and put it into Linux. SCO was dealt a massive legal setback after Kimball last August found that Novell, not SCO, owns the intellectual property rights to the Unix code. That August ruling, which SCO says it intends to appeal regardless of the outcome of the trial, undermined SCO's claims that IBM stole code from Unix and put it into Linux, as well as SCO's attempts to force hundreds of Linux users to pay licensing fees. The experiment has helped the students in more than one class. Ryskamp took a global engineering class with another teammate. "Our professor would be describing certain problems. Me and Kenny would just look at each other and say, 'Man, we've lived that one,' " he said. 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