A new study suggests that when comparing different diets weight loss doesn’t depend on which types of food are eliminated as long as calories are cut.
The new two-year study was financed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the Nation Institutes of Health. Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Barton Rouge conducted the research of over eight hundred dieters whose success was monitored for two years. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The overweight subjects were all placed on one of four different kinds of diets including two different low-fat diets and two plans higher in fat. All participants were also encouraged to attend weight-loss counseling sessions and a keep a food diary online. The dieters were also given exercise goals of only about 90 minutes a week since the study was focused on the affects of dieting.
The researchers found that on average in a six months period of time all the dieters lost about 13 pounds, and after two years they kept off an average of 9 pounds no matter which diet they were on. The researchers concluded it doesn’t matter how much fat or carbohydrates are cut from the diet as long as calorie intake is reduced.
According to information found on the Center for Disease Control’s website at cdc.gov the prevalence of obesity in the US continues to be a serious health concern for adults, children and adolescents.
I think meat will be the major factor and basic platform for obesity, while the meat companies, one of the special interest groups, struggle to divert the attention of general public to the calorie issue.
In my understanding, the fresh fruits can lead to healthy, peaceful mind and world, improving immune system, in contrast to the meat that will likely lead to war.