Key Main Diet: Count calories!

Options are very diverse diet. You can only do low-fat diet, low carbohydrate or high protein. But it is important that all of the calorie diet is appropriate.

According to the latest study, all types of diet can produce the ideal body weight to limit the number of calories origin that enter the body.

Previous often we hear, the key to lose weight is a low-carbohydrate diet. Even more say diet is effective compared with low-fat diet.

But a research conducted in the United States for two years found that the most important is how much calories that enter and exit.

"The secret is not diet low in fat or carbohydrate," says Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, head researcher of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "But, by limiting the consumption of calories membakarnya with berolahrga ago."

Results were published Thursday, 26 February 2009, the New England Journal of Medicine, by Harvard School of Public Health and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, USA.

Research conducted on 811 adults who have excess body weight. Each respondent has a womb of fat, protein and carbohydrate are different. The respondents are required to reduce 750 calories per day and exercise for 90 minutes each week.

During doing the program, the respondents remain mengonsumsi meat and dairy products. They also must always be met with nutrition experts to monitor the development of the diet. Result, the average of the respondents succeeded in reducing the 6.5 kg in six months time. In two years time they can get the ideal body weight.

But not all the respondents who itu.Responden get results more often of nutrition experts to come to achieve a better result.

According to one researcher, Dr. Frank Sacks, a routine nutrition experts make their diet program is monitored on an ongoing basis and calorie contents in food are limited.

"They should be more focus on the actual calories consumed in food," said Sacks.

But some researchers doubt the other respondents can still maintain body weight if they have not watched it again in the nutrition expert.

"Although the respondents have a high motivation, when they separated from the nutrition experts will be difficult to maintain their body weight," says Martijn Katan from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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