Study: Low-Fat Diet Lifts Mood

Want to lose weight? Try a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. Or, try a conventional high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet. Both work fine. In fact, according to research conducted at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Adelaide, Australia, both work equally fine. But if you also want to feel good while losing weight, go the low-fat route. HealthDay reports that the Australian study looked at 106 overweight and obese adults, who averaged 50 years old, and who were
randomly assigned to one of two diets — a low-calorie, low-carb,
high-fat plan or a high-carb, low-fat diet — for one year. Both diets
restricted calories to about 1,433 to 1,672 a day. A year later, the journal reports, average weight loss was about the same in each group: 30.2 pounds. But when it came to mood, things got interesting. After the first eight weeks, people in both groups showed mood
improvements, but that improvement lasted only in the low-fat group. After a year,
the mood of those in the high-fat group returned to what it had been
before they started dieting. Read more in HealthDay.

Read an abstract from the study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Read about how high-fat foods make you lazy and dumb.