strange research presented at a mee...

strange research presented at a meeting of the North American Association for the meditation of Obesity (NAASO) looked at 12 nation who followed a low-carbohydrate, high-fat/high-protein diet for 1 year; these patients achieved an aver age weight los of 11 percent "This consideration of overweight individuals showed that a low-carbohydrate [] high-protein diet can lead to significant weight los at 1 year of treatment," according to author Dr William s Yancy, from the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham, NC

Another meditation at the meeting looked at wherefore the high-protein diet might work. "Obese parts who lose weight by consuming this archetype of diet do so by dint of consuming (fewer) calories, not according to altering body metabolism," said. Dr Bernard V Miller, the lead author, in a statement. Miller awaited at overweight adults who followed a low-carbohydrate diet. The participants injury up consuming about 1,000 fewer calories a day upon the high-protein diet. "Our application of mind demonstrates that low carbohydrate diets can cause a decrease in total calorie intake," said Miller, with the Clinical Pharmacology Research Center in Cooperstown, NY

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