Three Major Diets Compared
This recent study compares three popular diets: Low fat, low carb, Mediterranean. The results weren’t surprising, to me at least.
All three work when it comes to weight loss.
The Mediterranean diet and low carb diet actually performed a little better, presumably because both allow more fat in the diet. These also resulted in better blood glucose and blood lipids, which may seem a little surprising.
Fats do help control appetite, and fats do help moderate blood glucose. I know from my husband’s experience that a low fat meal and a higher fat meal with the same number of carbs will have different effects on his glucose.
I think it’s better to think of these more as lifestyle changes than as diets. A diet is something you “go on” to lose weight, and come “off” when your willpower fails or you drop the pounds. To really lose weight and keep it off requires permanent changes in your eating and exercise, not on again off again diets.
Of course, the diet lifestyle change that works best for you is the one you can stick with.
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