Let’s get rid of misconceptions about being overweight
Obesity is increasing alarmingly all over the world and the various recommendations and strategies are eminently crucial in the fight against this epidemic . It is common to imagine that by removing fatty substances from your diet, weight loss would be more effective. It is also common to believe that this style of diet is easy to follow over the long term and without harm. But it is nothing!
According to a new study published in the American journal “The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology”, a diet followed for several months focused solely on the reduction of body fat would not lead to more weight loss than any other diet.
Some explanations
If for several years now, dietary fats have become the target of nutritionists , it is mainly because each gram of lipid contains nine kilocalories while a gram of carbohydrate or protein represents only four kilocalories. These last molecules would have less impact on the bathroom scale since they are less caloric .
But recently, this theory has been the subject of opposing studies based on the principle that it is not the simple reduction of fatty products that will spontaneously lead to general weight loss. In any case, this is what emerges from the latest scientific research conducted by Dr. Tobias. The latter concluded that following a diet low in fat cannot be followed in the long term because it leads to significant nutritional deficiencies and compulsive acts of bulimia called “compensation” from which no one emerges unscathed. The kilos settle insidiously and the fat cells no longer dislodge. This is also the opinion of another expert Kevin Hall of the “National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases” of Maryland.
On the other hand, and again according to the American researchers, the fact of following a diet low in complex carbohydrates for more than a year, such as starch in starchy foods, for example, allows a more substantial weight loss, more or less a kilo. In comparison, a low-fat diet allows for a single loss of 350 grams. This may be perplexing but, to validate these data, there have already been more than 53 studies which have abounded in this direction with, for these analyses, 70,000 people who have been recruited.
So what’s the “right way” to lose a few pounds?
It therefore emerges from these various studies that, regardless of the diets, it is unconditional adherence to them and over the long term, which is catastrophic for anyone who chooses a diet that is, after all, unsuitable. Since for scientists “science does not support low-fat diets as the optimal long-term weight loss strategy” one wonders what is the best way to lose a few extra pounds?
Thus, it is the same food logics recommended by the WHO (World Health Organization) that are coming back to the fore: the “best of diets” is to eat less and exercise more. And if this seems to be obvious , it does not prevent that it is by a regular and continuous repetition on the part of the media and other state organizations that the world population will become aware that it is indeed a controlled energy supply which determines the importance of weight loss. And nothing else !
And since, according to the main author of this enlightening study, Dr. Deirdre Tobias of Boston, Massachusetts, who demonstrates that there is “no evidence to advocate low-fat diets”, it is time to expand and to focus on healthy, simple, balanced nutritional practices .
Stephen Paul is the lead author and founder of My Health Sponsor. Holder of a diploma in health and well-being coaching with more than 200 articles in the field of health, he makes it a point of honor to offer advice based on reliable information, based on scientific research, and verified by health professionals.