Which diet will help you lose weight better?
All diets are the same
Kirill Stasevich, Compulenta
There are a great many diets, and those who want to lose weight or just improve their health have to solve the difficult question of which one to prefer. And really, which is better: with or without carbohydrates, with or without vegetables, with or without meat?..
Not so long ago we wrote that the effectiveness of the diet may depend on the genetic profile: if you have some genes, the diet will help you, if others – sorry. That is, the universal "best diet", it turns out, is not in nature. But there is an even more radical point of view.
Sherry Pagotto from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Bradley Apelens from Rush University (both USA) published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (A Call for an End to the Diet Debates) in which they criticize the general obsession with diets: any of them, according to scientists, works only in combination with physical exercises and proper psychological motivation.
"It's not what you eat that matters," says Bradley Apelens, "but how you eat." By "how" here is meant the whole way of life, entirely. The researchers analyzed a bunch of papers on which diet best helps to lose weight and prevent the appearance of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. As a result, it was not possible to find a single diet that would focus on fats, carbohydrates or proteins and at the same time give a long-lasting effect. Body weight decreased, but not much and not for long.
But what exactly helped to lose weight was the changes in the notorious lifestyle. Of course, the diet is one of its components, but without exercise and self–discipline, any diet is useless.
If you want to lose weight, you must not only eat right, but also ensure proper load on the muscles and cardiovascular system - and at the same time be aware of your behavior, that is, keep motivated, monitor the state of the body, be able to analyze the feeling of hunger, etc.
And what does "eating right" mean in this case? It turned out – and this is probably the most interesting thing – that with an integrated approach, the type of diet does not play any role. It can be a low-carb, or low–fat, or some other diet - any will be useful, any will help to keep weight within limits and prevent diabetes.
To the words "any" and "all are the same" it would be nice to add "except definitely harmful to health".
About diets that you should not sit down on, even if you really want to lose weight, you can read in the article "Dietology with mythology" – VM.
In other words, all diets are the same: with a proper lifestyle, they will all help one way or another, but alone, without exercise, motivation, etc., none will give the desired result.
Researchers agree that some diets (for example, vegetarian or fish-vegetarian) help to lose weight for a long time, but in this case the effect is due not only to the peculiarities of nutrition, but also to the rigid self-discipline that such diets require. That is, in order to comply with some power modes, you need to... change your lifestyle. If the diet does not help you, it does not mean at all that you are consuming, for example, fats and proteins in the wrong proportion that you need. This means that you eat too often, that you don't have time for proper cooking and exercise, that you are constantly tempted by the wrong food that family members bring home, etc., etc.
If a person says that some kind of diet helped him, it means that it affected the whole lifestyle, although perhaps the person himself does not realize this. But, as the researchers note, there are still few works devoted specifically to the influence of lifestyle on the state of metabolism: everyone still prefers to investigate the influence of the proportions of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Therefore, for the time being, it remains to be content with only statistical and meta-analytical research in this matter...
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