Which Diet Is Right For You?
Trying to lose weight? If you’re a more-meat-than-potatoes kind of person, two new studies should encourage you. That’s because both concluded that a low-carbohydrate diet appears to be at least as effective as a low-fat diet, challenging the long-held notion that eating fat is what makes you fat. And in a way that's true, but eating fat only allows your body to burn the fat in your food so it doesn't need to burn body fat when it has the fat in your diet. Losing weight is about losing body fat, so I do believe that eating fatty foods will keep your body from burning body fat and ultimately cause weight gain. One study, in the Annals of Internal Medicine , randomly assigned 148 men and women to follow either a low-carb or low-fat diet. After a year, the people on the low-carb diet had, on average, lost nearly 8 pounds more than those on the low-fat diet. The low-carb dieters also saw more improvement in their blood cholesterol levels than the low-fat dieters. The oth