Effect of Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb Diet on 12-Month Weight Loss in Overweight Adults
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Re: Effect of Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb Diet on 12-Month Weight Loss in Overweight Adults
#2Unsurprising results- calories intake & expenditure defines weight loss/gain, not other nutrition information like fat, carbs, vitamins, etc.
Re: Effect of Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb Diet on 12-Month Weight Loss in Overweight Adults
#3I'm guessing they used a random sample to study the diets hopefully and also this would generally mean I believe that any general diet low in fat or carbs can lose weight because they listed that participants still lost 5 to 6 kg no matter the diet?
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#4Unsurprising results- calories intake & expenditure defines weight loss/gain, not other nutrition information like fat, carbs, vitamins, etc.
I'm actually relieved by the result. It makes things make sense again a little more.
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#5Missing from the title is the qualifier "healthy", as in "healthy low-fat" diet vs "healthy low-carb" diet. What does "healthy" mean, here? It's not defined in the abstract.
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#6I wonder which of the two is easier to keep. Feeling hungry most of the time is little joy and leads to relapses.
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#7Unsurprising results- calories intake & expenditure defines weight loss/gain, not other nutrition information like fat, carbs, vitamins, etc.
It is surprising if you believe the insulin-obesity hypothesis. A lot of people do these days.
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#8Unsurprising results- calories intake & expenditure defines weight loss/gain, not other nutrition information like fat, carbs, vitamins, etc.
I my mind the point of these special diets is to alter the food habits making it so that you take in less total energy. By essentially forcing you to think more about your food.
Not that one diet wound automatically burn more energy than the other.
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#9>>In the HLF vs HLC diets, respectively, the mean 12-month macronutrient distributions were 48% vs 30% for carbohydrates, 29% vs 45% for fat, and 21% vs 23% for protein.
30% carbs is hardly "low-carb".
Indeed, most low-carb diets suggest 50g or less carbs per day - 200 calories or less.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/how-low-carb-is-low-carb
edit: why am I being downvoted?
Re: Effect of Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb Diet on 12-Month Weight Loss in Overweight Adults
#10Low-Carb proponents don't necessarily disagree that 'a calorie is a calorie' in the physics sense. We just feel there's no need to be hungry when you can eat to satiation and still lose weight, and that unnecessarily high glucose in the bloodstream is not good for you anyway.