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Want to Lose Weight? Just Eat Less, Diet Study Suggests

Comparison of 4 diet plans finds all produce similar results

Posted February 25, 2009

Reader Comments

Problem of hypoglycemia

Well, what do you do if you have low blood sugar? I got to have my protein or else get dizzy and pass out from not enough protein. So whaddya say about that, all you smart people out there?

Weight loss by hopping?

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"Foods you can make from your own home"? But where am I going to live?

You have to check these things

This seems to rule out altogether every past and future diet claim where a particular food or combination of foods is digested in a special way that avoids the calories reaching you. They always reach you. Sugar, fat, whatever. Weight control is a matter of calorie control. Materials such as olestra must still be exceptions, but you know what that does to you, so let's forget that.

The other factors I see are that a diet still should provide adequate nutrition other than calories, particularly if you intend to stick to it in the long term - which is the only thing that ever works really - and that how well a diet works depends on how well you can follow the rules. There's no point going on a mushroom soup diet if you hate mushroom soup so much that you need to eat candy with it to feel better. So in that respect, diets are not all equal according to their calorie count.

By the way, the traditional eight hours of sleep is not healthy, I believe you should be naturally sleeping less than that. But maybe more than you are. And me too. I also badly need to diet. Next week maybe...

walk daily

walkd daily use less the car, and your fell very good

Meat will be the major factor

I think meat will be the major factor and basic platform for obesity, while the meat companies, one of the special interest groups, struggle to divert the attention of general public to the calorie issue.

In my understanding, the fresh fruits can lead to healthy, peaceful mind and world, improving immune system, in contrast to the meat that will likely lead to war.

is it news?

so far, nothing new under the sun

weight loss

Just leave some food on your plate every time you eat,then leave abit more until you find you dont need as much to feel satisfied,and do some exercise each day. IT WORKS

Weight Loss

Wow, thanks Einstein for this great "discovery".

I agree with scapegoat above, Americans are just way too lazy. No diet in the world will help you lose weight magically. Take some efforts. Eat less. Excercise more. Don't just walk on the treadmill reading a magazine. Basic math - if you burn 3500 more calories than you eat, you will lose 1 pound. It's not rocket science. Now, get off the internet and take your fat a$$ to the gym!!

Life Changing Weight Loss

Thanks for the informative article. It just seems like the world has turned obese at such a fast pace it really is scary. I have struggled with weight for my whole life and finally have a grip on it after 30 years of suffering from diet-itis!! It really helps to know what you are doing and you don't have to work nearly as hard when you do. Go to this site http://kevkev227.stripfat.hop.clickbank.net/ It was recommended to me by a friend and it really changed my thinking and helped me turn the tide and finally lose weight and keep it off without the constant struggle and fluctuations. I have lost over 50 lbs and kept it off. I finally have enough energy to keep up with my children. Best of luck to every one of you who knows what it is like to struggle to lose weight...hope this makes your life easier!!

Diet study

jp of MD, you hit the nail on the head. How many brainiacs did it take to figure this out?!?!!? Here's another multi million dollar factoid that I'm gonna toss in for free...BURN MORE CALORIES THAN YOU CONSUME! Brilliant eh? Jeeze Louise....

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