Source: WSJ.com
"Whether you are just starting a New Year's diet or struggling to maintain a healthy weight, a provocative new study offers some timely guidance. It isn't so much what you eat, the study suggests, but how much you eat that counts when it comes to accumulating body fat.
The findings are the latest in a string of studies to challenge claims that the secret to healthy weight loss lies in adjusting the amount of nutritional components of a diet—protein, fat and carbohydrates.
The diet industry has offered dozens of strategies recommending raising or lowering carbohydrates, protein or fat." ...
The original JAMA article and two related articles:
- Bray (2012) Effect of Dietary Protein Content on Weight Gain, Energy Expenditure, and Body Composition During Overeating
- Livingston (2012) Inadequacy of BMI as an Indicator for Bariatric Surgery
- Sjöström (2012) Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Cardiovascular Events
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