To Lose Body Fat, Cut Dietary Fat First, Carbs Later

Contrary to popular dieting dogma, the best way to lose body is to restrict dietary fat, not carbs. How do they know that? Because researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases monitored every morsel of food eaten by 19 people for two two-week periods. Science Daily reports that during the first period, 30 percent of baseline calories were cut through carb restriction alone, while fat intake remained the same. During the second period the conditions were reversed. Each day, the researchers measured how much fat each participant ate and burned and used this information to calculate the rate of body fat loss. Ready? The envelope please….The researchers found that body fat lost with dietary fat restriction was greater compared with carbohydrate restriction, even though more fat was burned with the low-carb diet. Wait, there’s more, and it’s complicated. The researchers point out that over prolonged periods the model predicted that the body acts to minimize body fat differences between diets that are equal in calories but varying widely in their ratio of carbohydrate to fat.