Friday, March 23, 2007

Low Carb Diets better then Low Fat Diets

It looks like the hard evidence is finally in.
After 12 weeks on the low-carb plan, study participants had lost an
average of 4.9 kilograms (10.8 pounds), compared to 2.5 kg (5.5 pounds) for
their peers on the low-fat diet.

It is no longer considered pseudo-science and all of the scare tactics from the bread industry seems to have all been for naught. I have kept off about 20 lbs from switching to a low carb diet whenever I get above a certain weight limit. There is no way I could do a portion control diet because you end up wasting food. So a low-carb diet is proven to get results and now the science back this up. I agree with this though:
The researchers say more research is needed to clarify the mechanisms
responsible for the greater initial losses of body weight and fat associated
with the RGL diet, to evaluate the persistence of these losses over longer
treatment periods, and to obtain greater insight into strategies that would
improve long-term weight-loss maintenance."

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