If
you want to lose weight you'll see results faster if you eschew fancy
and complicated dietary rules and focus on reducing the number of
calories you take in—though we might suggest not measuring them out in
Twinkies.
Invariably
anytime weight loss is the topic of conversation somebody chimes in with
the time-honored advice of "eat less" and others counter with
explanations of how it's vastly more complicated than that. While
optimal nutrition intake and overall wellbeing are more complicated than
simply cutting calories Mark Haub, a nutrition professor at Kansas
State University, makes a compelling case for the power of calorie
cutting. To prove his point, that the most important element of weight
loss was raw calories cutting, he went on an odd-ball diet of primarily
junk food mixed with a daily protein shake and a multi-vitamin. In 10
weeks he lost 27 pounds by shifting his daily caloric intake from 2,600
calories per day to 1,800 or under.
The most
puzzling part of the experiment, one for which he has no concrete answer
at the moment, is that he didn't just lose weight he also increased the
"good" forms of cholesterol in his blood and decreased the "bad" forms
despite eating box after box of Twinkies and other junk food. Regardless
of the anomalies of his research the evidence stacks strongly in favor
of calorie reduction as the gold standard of dieting.
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