A new study revealed that people who wish to lose weight and improve their health should go for a low-carbohydrate diet. Low carbohydrate diet works better than the low fat diet since it also lessen the hazard of heart diseases.
However, a few researchers are still apprehensive about the impact of this diet on heart health because they are likely to be high in fat.
Dr. Lydia Bazzano, the main author of this study stated that people can lose more weight and decrease the risk factor of heart disease through appropriate nutritional counseling. In these nutritional counselling session nutritionist will notify them the benefits of the low-carbohydrate diet.
Moreover, Bazzano said that the outcome of this study demonstrates that if a person is overweight and have a cardiovascular disease risk element then a low carbohydrate diet would definitely help them.
Carbohydrates are found in food which contain sugar, fiber and starches. This sort of food is responsible to provide supply energy to the entire body.
The researchers presented the details of this study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. They wrote that these days low carb diets are more famous as compared to the other weight loss strategies. Nevertheless, the study showed mixed result regarding its cardiovascular risk factor.
The Experts performed this study with the help of 148 obese men and women between the ages of 22 and 75. Researchers requested half of the people to adopt a low carbohydrate diet and assigned a low fat diet to the rest of the people. Participants were strictly asked not to abide by their routine physical activities.
All the members took a nutrition counseling session, The only difference was in the diets of the two groups.
The result of this experiment showed that the group who was on the low carbohydrate diet lost more weight and body fat.
