It is no news that it has been a while since thousands of Americans have been battling with obesity and it still seems like real solutions are far fetched. There are also many ways to lose weight, but not everyone is able to maintain it and not everybody could get started. Low fat diets have been around for years now, and still obesity is still a huge problem. Harvard University has some answers to this and apparently, low fat diets are not the solution at all.
According to a news article written by Yahoo, a research was made and published on Friday by The Lancet: Diabetes & Endocrinology, analyzing 53 clinical tests stating that low fat diets don't do anything to people who are trying to lose weight.
So if you are still believing that not eating food that are high in fats can make you maintain a good shape, well consider that as a myth now. According to the study, those who are under the said diet can only lose about 6 pounds after a year of doing it. But, those who are into "low-carb" diets actually have lost more that it took up to 8.5 pounds within the year.
Deidre Tobias, ScD, who is the leader of the study and also a professor and epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School told Yahoo Health that the results didn't shock her at all.
"Everyone has been promoting low fat diets for decades and we're still chasing an obesity epidemic," Tobias said. "We knew something wasn't right in the message we were promoting," she further added. She was more surprised with the fact that it was ineffective from the other diet plans that people do.
It may be ineffective, but still fats are not a good idea for anyone's body.
