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    It depends what you replace it with really,” Volek says.

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    But researchers like Volek and Scott are beginning to put the pieces together.

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    In one study, Volek and his team put overweight people on a reduced-calorie diet and divided them into three groups.

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    According to lead study author Jeff Volek, pH.D., R.D., two factors influence the amount of fat coursing through your veins.

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    After all, in Volek's study, participants who followed the low-fat diet- which was high in carbs- also decreased their triglycerides.

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    All of which helps explain why the low-carb dieters in Volek's study had a greater loss of fat in their blood.

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    When we asked Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D., to roughly estimate the metabolic activity of muscle, his ballpark number surprised even us here at Men's Health.

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    Dr. Volek's calculations: One pound of skeletal muscle burns about 6 calories a day, while one pound of fat burns around 2 calories a day.

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    And, based on the research of Volek and Dr. Krauss, a weight-loss or-maintenance diet in which some carbohydrates are replaced with fat- even if it's saturated- will reduce markers of heart-disease risk more than if you followed a low-fat, high-carb diet.

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