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When Following A Diet, Counting Calories Is The Real Key
Washington (dbTechno) – According to a new study, counting calories is more important than counting carbs, fat, or anything else when following a diet.
This new federal study aimed to try and see which type of diet would be the best overall to help people lose weight and get healthier.
The study was led by Dr. Frank Sacks of the Harvard School of Public Health and focused on 811 overweight adults from Boston and Baton Rouge.
They had the participants follow one of the four following diets.
Diet 1: 20% fat, 15% protein, 65% carbs.
Diet 2: 20% fat, 25% protein, 55% carbs.
Diet 3: 40% fat, 15% protein, 45% carbs.
Diet 4: 40% fat, 25% protein, 35% carbs.
They also had the participants complete 90 minutes of exercise each week.
What researchers found is that no one diet was actually any better than another.
The real key was simply counting calories and keeping their daily calorie intake between 1,200 to 2,400 each day depending on the person.
After 6 months, participants lost an average of 13 pounds, with the weight loss dropping to 6 or 7 pounds after 2 years.
As stated, there was no diet that was a clear winner, the key was simply counting those calories!
The study has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Author: Staff
stupid study… they barely modulated the the variables of the tested diets… of course they would not see material variance in outcome.
They needed to significantly increase one of the three vectors while decreasing the other two. That would yield more insight than this limp test.
Interesting, but perhaps it was the relatively narrow ratios that made no difference. For example extreme diets like Ornish versus Atkins have a far greater swing in the amount of fat or carbs that are considered acceptable than is represented in this study.
You would need 2% fat and 2% carb variations to be closer to accurately including those diets in this approach.