Can a low-carbohydrate diet help keep weight off?

For your entire life you have been bombarded with information about which diet is the best to help you lose weight. Like many other people, you might have tried one or even a dozen diets, but it took a bit of trial and error for you to find which diet worked for you. Now, you are on to the hard part. You have finally lost the weight, but how do you keep it off? That is the million dollar question, right? In a new study in BMJ, researchers sought to determine if a low-carbohydrate diet might help mitigate the dreaded weight regain that occurs when a person loses weight. We know that when a person loses weight their energy expenditure, or metabolism, decreases. Until now, we have not known whether a certain diet composition would affect this metabolic adaptation that inevitably occurs. The BMJ study researchers studied 164 adults with overweight or obesity — classified as a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or greater — between August 2014 and May 2017. Individuals in the study were assigned to one of three test diets: high carbohydrate content (60% carbohydrate diet) medium carbohydrate content (40% carbohydrate diet) low carbohydrate content (20% carbohydrate diet) The investigators then measured several factors during the participants’ weight loss maintenance phase. The results were very interesting. Here is what they discovered: The total energy expenditure (TEE) of persons on a low-carbohydrate diet was much higher than persons in the medium or high carbohydrate groups....
Source: Harvard Health Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs