Posted on 11/09/2009 3:53:21 PM PST by Feline_AIDS
You aren't what you eat. You're how much.
That's the message from a two-year National Institutes of Health-funded study that assigned 811 overweight people to one of four reduced-calorie diets and found that all trimmed pounds just the same. It didn't matter what foods participants ate, but rather how many calories they consumed.
An intense debate has long raged over which dieting regimen is best. Low carb? High protein? Low fat? But the federal study, one of the longest of its kind, "really goes against the idea that certain foods are the key to weight loss," says Frank Sacks, principal investigator and a professor of cardiovascular-disease prevention at Harvard School of Public Health. "This is a pretty positive message. It gives people a lot of choices to find a diet they can stick with."
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Yes, but it’s not as fun as eating a bag of chips or a whole box of cookies. Or, worse yet, watching your overweight friends eat a whole pizza & complain about how skinny you with your No Breads diet are.
This illustrates the two “McDonalds” movies - Super Size Me and the rebuttal one, I forgot what it was called.
The guy in “Super Size Me” gained a lot of weight over the one month he ate nothing but McDs. But he picked the high cal stuff and super sized whenever it was suggested.
The rebuttal movie showed the person losing weight on a month of nothing but McDonalds. But he or she chose better foods there and didn’t Supersize.
So it’s not McDonalds doing it. It’s how much McDonalds.
Tell that to a diabetic.
Calories in vs calories burned. That’s the only way that has worked for me.
DUH!!!!!!!! Energy in needs to be less than energy out. Thermodynamics. You must either eat less calories or exercise and burn off the calories. It has always been simple science. It is not what you eat but the amount of calories. YOU MUST COUNT calories. EVERYDAY. You will then learn what to eat so you will not be hungry.
What's gonna happen if I don't? ;-)
I also find daily weigh-ins and keeping a food diary help me out quite a bit. When I see the morning number, I know what my food choices for the day are. Helps me avoid those “how did I gain five pounds?” situations.
Thank you!!!!!!!! We should not generalize about anyone, this includes overwieght people. Perhaps the majority of overweight people eat too much, but there are other reasons people put on weight. (diabetes, thyriod, metabolic syndrome, glandular disorders, etc)
no. Whatever the excuse is, if you take in more than you use, you gain weight. I does not work differently. It cannot work differently. Sorry
You will go to prison and be raped.
Are you a doctor?
If someone eats refined sugar, saturated fat and white flour with no veggies they will hold weight at 1800 calories.
The same 1800 calories of whole grains, veggies and lean protein will have weight loss.
This whole calorie in, calorie out is silly. It’s been proven many a time by the Atkins people and the doctors treating Diabetic patients that the theory is wrong.
>>It cannot work differently. Sorry<<
It does. Sorry.
Watch a person put on steroids for any reason.
A dear friend of mine had a ten year old with a brain tumor. She ate no more than her sister. The sister was just as inactive because she would not leave her sister’s side, reading to her and making friendship bracelets. The girl on steroids was 30 pounds larger when she died.
That’s just one case.
nope. are you?
I completely agree!! I have a problem with sugar/ carbs too. I started a regimen that is more calories than I am used to, but with no white flour or grains of any kind and the weight is just falling off. I am eating MORE calories, alot more. It causes me to drop weight. I lost a pound per day for the last 20 days with no exercise. According to this article, it’s impossible.
Because some sugars trigger insulin production and some don’t. It’s not magic, it’s how your pancreas works. Do some research on diabetic diets. Kids with type one Diabetes will go into shock from too many carbs. Yet can eat maltose until they turn blue with no fluctuation in insulin levels.
Not all sugars are equal.
“Perhaps the majority of overweight people eat too much, but there are other reasons people put on weight. (diabetes, thyriod, metabolic syndrome, glandular disorders, etc)”
Not true... It is all about consumed calories.
if she gained weight truly gained weight eating exactly he same thing as before, than her body needed fewer calories to maintain itself. happens to a lot of us when we get older. But still, if you need 2000 or 1700 to maintain yourself, and you eat more, you gain weight. your needs can change (and does with exercise or lack thereof) but there is no magic bullet
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