DHAKA: Cutting fat from your diet causes more effective weight loss than restricting carbohydrates, new research has claimed, reports scotsman.com.

Scientists fed 19 obese adults controlled diets over two separate fortnights, where the slimmers cut carbs by 30 per cent during the first period and then reducing fat intake by the same amount.

Contrary to regimes such as the Atkins diet, where participants avoid carbs entirely, the study found that the low-fat diet delivered better results.

The team from the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases predicts that over long periods the body will automatically minimise the difference to fat loss caused by alternative diets of the same calorie count.

Lead scientist Dr Kevin Hall said: “There is one set of beliefs that says all calories are exactly equal when it comes to body fat loss and there’s another that says carbohydrate calories are particularly fattening, so cutting those should lead to more fat loss.

“Our results showed that, actually, not all calories are created equal when it comes to body fat loss, but over the long term, it’s pretty close.”

The results published yesterday in the journal Cell Metabolism confirmed the results of computer simulations carried out by the same team which predicted that only the carb-restricted diet would lead to changes in the amount of fat burned.

It found that the reduced-fat diet would lead to greater overall fat loss. Dr Hall said: “A lot of people have very strong opinions about what matters for weight loss, and the physiological data upon which those beliefs are based are sometimes lacking.

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