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HIGH-carbohydrate diets are just as effective in maintaining
weight loss as other r diets, it is now claimed.
A study to be presented to a conference in Adelaide next
week, has found people on diets high in slowly digested carbohydrate
and low in saturated fat can successfully lose weight and
keep it off.
University of Melbourne research dietician Liz Delbridge and
her team put 173 overweight or obese people on a 12-week low-energy
weight loss diet before switching them randomly to either
a high carbohydrate or high protein diet to maintain their
weight.
"Some people have weight loss and keep it off, whereas
others lose weight and put it all back on again," said
Ms Delbridge, who will present her findings at next week's
Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Incorporated
Convention. "We wanted to see if the type of diet people
adopted after weight loss had an influence on people's ability
to keep the weight off."
Results showed that a high protein diet had no advantages
over a high carbohydrate diet in maintaining weight loss over
a 12-month period, Ms Delbridge said.
Source: http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au
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