A low-carbon water diet helps maintain weight loss in the long term

A new study released in the United States shows that reducing the proportion of carbohydrates in your diet can help your body burn more calories and help obese people stay healthy for the long term.
people tend to think that you can lose weight without eating or eating less. However, several previous studies have shown that in the long run, relying on this calorie-reducing approach to lose weight will eventually diminish as the body's metabolism slows down to store energy, making weight loss more difficult. In addition, carbohydrates are an important source of energy for life-sustaining activities, so some of the more extreme high-fat, zero-carbohydrate diets are not recommended.
new study, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and others helped obese people consolidate their weight loss by adjusting the ratio of carbohydrate to fat in their diets.
researchers selected 234 overweight adults and asked them to take a 10-week diet first. The researchers then selected adults who had achieved their initial weight loss goals and randomly divided them into three groups -- a high-carbon water diet with 60 percent carbohydrates, a medium-carbon water diet with 40 percent carbohydrates, and a low-carbon water diet group with 20 percent carbohydrates.
found that the low-carbon water diet group burned up to 278 more calories per day on average than the high-carbon water diet group. If this effect is sustained, "an estimated 10 kg of weight could be lost in three years," the researchers report in the new issue of the British Medical Journal.
, an endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital and one of the authors of the paper, said limiting carbohydrate intake may be a better strategy in the long run than limiting calorie intake. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)