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Eating support gives a 245 percent differenceA recent study by the New England Journal of Medicine demands attention for everyone who needs support when it comes to eating the right foods.
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A clinical trial of 811 overweight adults assigned to one of four different diets over two years found out that the type of diet your follow is not the main influencer of results. What’s much more important when it comes to eating is the support and guidance you get while you follow the diet.
What does this mean? It’s great news – because now you don’t need to try to keep up with the latest weight-loss fad. Just pick a proven eating plan that works, and make sure you get support and guidance while you do it. The study suggests that you don’t have to get too precise with your foods, nor do you need to cut foods out of your diet completely. This is good – because it tends towards a sustainable answer: eating support. The results of the 2-year study were quite amazing. Each of the four diets tested varied in the % of protein, carbohydrate and fat included. Each participant was provided with a program of support and coaching, including web-based guidance and group participation. Approximately half of the dieters participated in the support and coaching program, and the other half decided to ‘go it alone’. gap
At the end of the 2 years it was found that the results across the four different diets were statistically similar.
The differences in final results were in fact determined by whether a dieter – regardless of what diet they were on – followed the eating support program.
And the results were staggering: those following the program and participating in group contact lost 245% more weight than those ‘going it alone’. |