With 2 days a week diet is it possible to lose weight?
An intermittent, low-carb diet appears to have better results than a standard, daily calorie-restricted diet for reducing weight and insulin levels.
These results, presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, showed that carbohydrate restriction two days a week may be a better dietary approach than a standard, daily calorie-restricted diet for breast cancer prevention. and other diseases.
"The weight loss and reduction in insulin levels needed to prevent breast cancer is difficult to achieve and maintain with conventional dietary approaches," said the researchers, who divided 115 women with a family history of breast cancer into three groups for four months and examined the effects on weight loss and markers associated with breast cancer development.
The groups followed: a calorie-restricted, low-carbohydrate diet for two days a week and a standard, calorie-restricted daily diet based on the Mediterranean diet for seven days a week.
The average weight loss was about 4 pounds with the intermittent approach versus 2.4 pounds with the daily diet!
More research will be needed to evaluate these results, but let's look at some aspects of the obesity problem:
1) Adherence to a daily diet plan is quite a difficult process for many
2) Although protein diets have good results in weight loss, at the same time they are diets rich in saturated and trans fats, salt, cholesterol and are not indicated for long periods of time
3) Most data worldwide show that if there is an ideal dietary pattern, it is none other than the Mediterranean diet
Maybe if we connect these pieces we will also find the solution for dealing with obesity?
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