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Text: This 3-wk study evaluated the efficacy of feeding a high-fat, low-carbohydrate (CHO) nutritional supplement as opposed to a high-carbohydrate diet in COPD patients on parameters of pulmonary function. S METHODS : Sixty COPD patients with low body weight (< 90 % ideal body weight) were randomized to the control group, which received dietary counseling for a high-CHO diet (15 % protein, 20 % to 30 % fat, and 60 % to 70 % CHO), or the experimental group, which received two to three cans (237 mL/can) of a high-fat, low-CHO oral supplement (16. 7 % protein, 55. 1 % fat, and 28. 2 % CHO) in the evening as part of the diet.