The joys of September! Parents gleefully shove their reluctant children onto school buses, the palm trees in Los Angeles don’t change color, and everyone realizes that they gained 20 pounds during their summer vacation. It’s time to get serious again about losing weight.
But how should you eat to best help you shed the extra pounds? Many people are passionate about their favorite diet, but there is very little data comparing different diets to each other. Some swear by low carbohydrate diets (like Atkins), while others insist that low fat diets (like Weight Watchers and others) yield more weight loss and achieve healthier cholesterol numbers.
This week, a ” target=”_blank”>A Call for a Low-Carb Diet That Embraces Fat (New York Times)
” target=”_blank”>Effects of Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets: A Randomized Trial(Annals of Internal Medicine)
Some of my past posts on diet and weight loss:
” target=”_blank”>Startling Scientific Finding: Dieting Leads to Weight Loss
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