Low-Fat Diets
In 2000, the International Journal of Obesity published a nice review article of low-fat diet trials. It included data from 16 controlled trials lasting from 2-12 months and enrolling 1,910 participants (1). What sets this review apart is it only covered studies that did not include instructions to restrict calorie intake (ad libitum diets). On average, low-fat dieters reduced their fat intake from 37.7 to 27.5 percent of calories. Here's what they found:
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part III
Labels:
diabetes,
diet,
fats,
Food reward,
hyperphagia,
low-carb,
metabolic syndrome,
overweight,
paleolithic diet
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