Scientists know how to lose weight without dieting
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Scientists from the University of East Anglia recommend that those who want to lose weight simply reduce their fat intake, rather than test different fashionable diets and food systems.
Experts argue that it is much more effective than all kinds of diets, which today have a huge number, will limit the use of products containing fats. Exclude from your diet cakes, cookies, chips, meat, cheese and butter, eat plenty of low-fat yogurt and milk. The less fatty foods you eat, the better the results.
In addition to a slender figure, which is sure to be such, if a person has enough strength not to look at foods containing large amounts of fat, the rejection of such products will help improve overall health, and also reduce the level of bad cholesterol in the blood.
The results of research scientists for the first time prove the fact that you can lose weight without much effort and not adhering to strict diets, which can sometimes be called a famine.
Experts concluded this conclusion by combining 33 clinical trials, involving 74 thousand volunteers. The findings are published on the pages of the scientific journal "British Medical Journal".
The lead author of the study, Dr. Lee Hooper, says that people who adhered to such a diet were stably keeping a lower weight compared to the rest.
"The body weight after the rejection of fatty foods stably declined. And it demonstrated almost every special case of giving up fatty foods. Those who adhered to more strict principles of nutrition, could show even better results, "- comment the researchers.
In addition, the authors of the work say that the rejection of unhealthy food does not change so much the life of a person and his habits, like diets. Scientists watched people who ate healthy food and restricted the consumption of fats, but which, at the same time, did not seek to lose weight. They did not limit the amount of food and, nevertheless, their weight gradually decreased.
The review included 33 randomized trials that lasted from six months to eight years. A comparative analysis was conducted between sites that consumed the usual amount of fat (25-50% of calories per day) and those who began to restrict the consumption of fatty foods.
The first results appeared already through the weather: the participants of the study, which "degreased" their menu, became lighter at least 1.6 kilograms, and in the volume there were changes of 0.5 centimeters.
"Such a transformation of the diet, of course, will not give fast results, which many fashion diets promise. Odako sharp jumps in weight often lead to negative consequences and health problems. Usually, in case of using diets, weight not only returns back, but also increases. And the rejection of fatty foods, despite the gradual decrease in body weight, gives more stable results and improves the health indicators of a person, "the researchers comment on the results.