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This is yet another common myth among the weight loss crowd. Fad diet function mainly by restricting calories.When calories are limited, weight loss occurs, which is the first and foremost advantage of following such a plan. To name any further advantages would be false reporting. And Like any other diet that tells you to cut this or that food from your daily meals, fad diets are not a good healthy choice for you. A landmark study on dieting and weight loss has found that the calories-in versus calories-out equation is the single most important bit of math in weight control. Not counting carbs or restricting fat – just moderate eating and exercise, plain and simple.
The study, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, compared four diets modeled after popular eating plans like Atkins and the Mediterranean Prescription. All participants exercised several times a week for a total of 90 minutes, and at the end of six months, subjects on every diet lost an average of 13 pounds. There wasn’t a significant difference in weight loss between the four groups, and the only constant was that they had eliminated 750 calories from their daily consumption.
This is “the largest-ever controlled study of weight-loss methods” according to The New York Times. And it says exactly the opposite of what we’ve been hearing from nutrition activists: It’s not what you eat but how much you eat of it.
The cornerstone of any diet is supplying the body with all the calories, proteins and minerals it needs. Diets that cut out foods without regard for the needs of your body cannot be healthy for you. Fad diets fail to deliver on the promise of permanent weight loss because people will always crave the forbidden foods and will always end up breaking the rules and ditching the diet.
The key to making weight loss permanent is more exercise and to avoid eating food that makes you fat without nourishing your body. The extensive studies confirmed the importance of exercising and of a well-balanced diet.
The study, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, compared four diets modeled after popular eating plans like Atkins and the Mediterranean Prescription. All participants exercised several times a week for a total of 90 minutes, and at the end of six months, subjects on every diet lost an average of 13 pounds. There wasn’t a significant difference in weight loss between the four groups, and the only constant was that they had eliminated 750 calories from their daily consumption.
This is “the largest-ever controlled study of weight-loss methods” according to The New York Times. And it says exactly the opposite of what we’ve been hearing from nutrition activists: It’s not what you eat but how much you eat of it.
The cornerstone of any diet is supplying the body with all the calories, proteins and minerals it needs. Diets that cut out foods without regard for the needs of your body cannot be healthy for you. Fad diets fail to deliver on the promise of permanent weight loss because people will always crave the forbidden foods and will always end up breaking the rules and ditching the diet.
The key to making weight loss permanent is more exercise and to avoid eating food that makes you fat without nourishing your body. The extensive studies confirmed the importance of exercising and of a well-balanced diet.
