Despite the general belief, a new study suggests that a low-fat diet is better than low-carbohydrate diet in long-term weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight. This diet is for anyone who wants to reach their ideal weight. It is also excellent for clients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease.
80% of the success of any fitness program is in what you eat. Weight gain diets should insure a healthy balance between fat and calories. A nutritional program made up of complex carbohydrates, quality protein, essential fats and leafy green vegetables is the key to success.
As dietary fats carry almost twice as many calories as carbohydrates and proteins, reducing dietary fat intake seems a natural approach to weight loss. In fact, the current USDA Food Pyramid recommends a low fat diet for healthy living. As the name implies, a low fat diet involves careful regulation of the amounts of dietary fats one may eat, reducing fat intake to 30% of one’s total intake with only 10% of total calories in saturated fat form.
According to the study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, both low-fat and low-carb diets are effective weight loss strategies, adding that the latter would lead to weight loss in a shorter time.
keep nutritional principles in mind while selecting foods to eat for a low fat diet. Some so-called low fat foods are really only low fat versions of high fat foods. Low fat ice cream, for example, may be low fat in comparison to premium ice cream, but it is still essentially a high fat item that shouldn’t be eaten while on a low fat diet. Also, some packaged low fat foods are made with all sorts of unpronounceable chemicals. As always, the best low fat food choices will be unprocessed, naturally low fat foods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables.
A common misconception dieters have regarding low fat diets is that they can eat as much low fat food as they want and still lose weight. There is nothing magical about eating a low fat diet, however. Such a diet can help with weight loss only when it succeeds in reducing the total amount of calories a person eats. Dieters who increase portions of low fat foods end up eating as many calories as they did before and fail to lose weight.