A 2015 study has found out that people who forget calories and sustain a low protein, high carbohydrate diet (LPHC) live as healthy and long as those who limit calories.
Professor Stephen Simpson, from the University of Sydney, authored the "game-changing" research. Now, there's finally a feasible alternative to the challenging restricted calorie diet when it comes to living a long and healthy life and that is by eating high carbohydrates.
University of Sydney Professor said that only a few people can maintain a diet on strict calorie restriction. He expressed that limiting the intake of calories may lead to negative effects such as "loss of bone mass, libido and fertility".
Professor Simpson then tried to check how LPHC diet - which he strongly recommends for it is easier to sustain as compared to a Restrcited Calorie diet.
Professor Simpson tested his theory on mice. He placed them on different macronutrient based diets. He experimented his subjects for eight weeks (equal to about two human years). The genius professor found that those under low protein, high carbohydrate diet and restricted calorie diet lived 30 per cent longer and are healthier.
Surprisingly, despite craving and eating more, the mice under low protein, high carbohydrate diet came out as healthy as those under restricted calorie diet. This was because the opposing diets stimulate the same pathways.
However, Professor Simpson notes that choice of food is still very important when following the more sustainable low protein, high carbohydate diet. For the game-changer Professor, it is never an excuse to eat more sugar as it creates negative consequences.
Sydney Morning Herald posts that Professor Stephen Simpson suggests that people who choose to maintain a low protein, high carbohydrate diet (LPHC) must do so through intake of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and other low glycemic index carbohydrates.
