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Calorie Count, Low-Carb, or Low-Fat??? What Diet works?
What's more effective for weight loss, a low-carb diet or a low-fat diet?
I read that the International Life Sciences Institute in Washington DC conducted a workshop last year to sort out the relative merits of low-fat vs. low-carbohydrate weight loss diets. This academic gathering surmised all of the research on this topic, here’s what they found.
On average, people that followed low-carb’ diets lost between 3-13% of body weight in five months. Those that followed a low-fat approach lost between 1.4-7% of body weight, but after a year there were no weight loss differences between the groups. Interestingly, follow-up reports clearly showed that very few people kept the weight off for two years or more unless a calorie controlled approach was taken for the long term.
For permanent results, the research suggests that a focus on calorie control is much more important than the manipulation of either fat or carbohydrate in the diet.
So don’t get caught up in the confusion about low-carb, high-carb, low-fat, high-fat diets. Stick to what is shown to work. That is, a structured, calorie-controlled diet. To be effective, this diet must provide just enough carbohydrates to fuel intense training but also be rich in protein, fiber and essential fats.
Happy Fitness Training,
From Ross TaeKwonDo Academy
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