For millions of Americans on diets, eating the right combination of foods could be key to keeping off unwanted pounds.Diets that limit processed carbohydrates such as breakfast cereals and bagels may enable longer-lasting weight loss compared with other diets with the same number of calories, according to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“It says that from a metabolic perspective all calories are not alike,” said Dr. David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. “The quality of the calories going in affects the number of calories going out.”
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This is a very important study. It shows that the low-fat and most low- calorie diets, which physicians have recommended for the last 50 years, are likely to lead to yo-yo weight loss/weight gain episodes. The obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemics did not exist until physicians started to recommend low-fat and low-calorie diets. It's easy to lose weight and maintain weight loss with the right diet, but it is very difficult to do so if the physician recommends the wrong diet.
I was unclear in understanding if the compromise diet meant that fat and low fat foods were included, ie, cheeses, yogurts, etc.
Lague, The compromise diet is 40% carbs, 40% fat, and 20% protein. The compromise diet had a high proportion of fat from monosaturated fat. The compromise diet is similar to a Mediterranean diet. Table 1 in the article provides more detail. Here's a link to the article: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1199154