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New News: It's Fats, Not Carbs (you idiots) :)
Eat less, lose weight. Eat more, gain weight. Exercise more, lose weight, sit on your ass, gain weight. Can it be simpler than that?
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LAS VEGAS — Limiting fats rather than carbohydrates is better for keeping weight off, according to new research that could add fuel to the backlash against low-carb diets.
Regardless of how they shed pounds in the first place, dieters have been turning away from Atkins-style plans as a long-term weight-control strategy, and the new study gives them more reason: Low-fat plans seem to work better at keeping weight off.
“People who started eating more fat … regained the most weight over time,” said Suzanne Phelan, a Brown Medical School psychologist who presented results of the study Monday at a meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.
The study used the National Weight Control Registry, a decade-old effort to learn the secrets of success from people who had lost at least 30 pounds and kept them off for at least a year. Doctors from the University of Colorado in Denver, the University of Pittsburgh and Brown University in Providence, R.I., run the registry.
They studied 2,700 people who entered the registry from 1995 through 2003. Their average age was 47, most were women, and they had lost an average of 72 pounds initially. Doctors compared their diets to see whether one type or another made a difference in how much weight they had lost and how much they had regained a year later.
All reported eating only about 1,400 calories a day, but the portion that came from fat rose — from 24 percent in 1995 to more than 29 percent in 2003 — while the part from carbohydrates fell, from 56 percent to 49 percent.
The number who were on low-carb diets (less than 90 grams a day) rose from 6 percent to 17 percent during the same period.
The type of diet made no difference in how people lost weight initially. But those who increased their fat intake over a year regained the most weight.
Colette Heimowitz, a spokeswoman for the Atkins diet organization, noted that the study considered 90 grams to be low-carb, while Atkins recommends 60 grams for weight loss and 60 to 120 for weight maintenance. She said that for many of the dieters studied, “the carbs aren't low enough for them to be successful.”
Thomas Wadden, a University of Pennsylvania weight loss expert who had no role in the study, said it was too soon to say which approach was better.
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