Counting calories

February

Calories really do count. A new study of more than 800 overweight people showed that it didn’t matter if they followed a low-carbohydrate, high-carbohydrate, high-protein diets, low fat or high fat diet. What mattered most was reducing calories, according to the study in “The New England Journal of Medicine”:http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/360/9/859?query=TOC.

After six months, participants assigned to each diet had lost an average of seven percent of their weight. But after a year, many regained that weight, according to the study.

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 at 4:14 pm by Jane Lerner. Print This Post | Email This Post

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