Diet Plan For Fat Loss Women - Low-Fat Diet Tops Low-Carb in Long Run
A low carbohydrate diet can offer quick results, but a new study suggests that a low-fat diet can be better for long-term weight loss and maintain a healthy weight.
Researchers found obese people who have followed a low-fat diet may be more likely to maintain the weight of three years later after starting the diet than those who followed a low carbohydrate diet.
"Although participants in the low carbohydrate group lose more weight at 12 months, they recovered more weight in the next 24 months," writes researcher Marion L. Vetter, MD, RD from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues in the Annals of the internal medicine. "In contrast, the participants in the low-fat group kept their weight loss."
In the study, the researchers started with a group of 132 obese people whoighed an average of 289 pounds before starting a low-fat diet, a calorie restricted diet with less than 30% of the daily calories of fat, or low carbohydrate diet with less than 30 grams of fat per day for 12 months.
After six months in the diets, the group in the low carbohydrate diet experienced the highest weight loss, but for 12 months there was no significant difference in weight loss between the two groups.
Three years after the beginning of the study and two years after the diets ended, the researchers accompanied 40 people in the low carbohydrate diet group and 48 in the low-fat diet group.
they found people in the low carbohydrate diet group weighed an average of 4.9 pounds less than before they start the diet while those in the low-fat diet group weighed an average of 9.5 pounds less than which at the beginning of the study.
Researchers say both diets seem to offer weight loss benefits, the standard of weight change was different between low carbohydrate and low fat diet groups.
"Weight differences recover between the two groups are likely to reflect the initial weight loss", write the researchers. "Participants who lost more weight during the first 12 months tended to recover more weight per month 36".
