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Low-fat and low-carb diets show that none is superior to others


A recent analysis looked for the most effective diet: Low-fat, low-carb or high-fat
Researcher: “None of the diets did particularly well, and after one year, they are all pretty abysmal”


(CNN) Some diets claim you must eat less fat to have any hope of losing weight. Others insist the only way to shed pounds is to shed carbs. A new study suggests that it doesn’t much matter which diet you follow.


Researchers set out to answer this age-old debate: Are low-fat diets any better than all the rest? In a weight-loss contest between a low-fat diet and high-fat or low-carbohydrate diets, who would come out on top?


There has been reams of research on the subject and the researchers analyzed 53 studies that compared the amount of weight that people had lost one year or more after starting various diets. The commons types include low-fat diets, such as the popular high-carb diet developed by Dr. Dean Ornish, the low-carbohydrate diet, such as the popular program created by Dr. Robert Atkins, and high-fat diets, such as the Mediterranean menu, which has been shown to have health benefits in addition to weight loss.


Generally, study participants on a low-fat diet got less than 30% (and sometimes only 10%) of calories from fat. Those on high-fat and low-carb diets usually got at least 30% (and sometimes more than 60%) of calories from fat and less than 10% from carbs.


Of all the diets they looked at, which emerged the lightweight champion? None.


The main verdict was that there was no difference in weight loss between low-fat and high-fat diets. However, the low-fat diets fared slightly better than the low-carb diets; people had lost about 2.5 more pounds after at least a year. But the difference was small and the researchers did not think it would lead to any meaningful health benefits.

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