It is fine to lose fat fast
Article Type: Food facts From: Nutrition & Food Science, Volume 41, Issue 1
New research indicates that people trying to lose weight should follow a diet programme that slices a large proportion of their unwanted poundage straight off.
The traditional approach to weight loss has been that slow gradual weight loss is more effective in the long term than fast weight loss but research presented to the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm has kicked that idea into touch.
Dr Jeroen Barte, a Researcher at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in The Netherlands explained to the congress that they had analysed data from 12 different weight-loss studies with 1,000 overweight participants. The programmes lasted between ten weeks and one-and-a-half years and all the participants were weighed again at least a year after the programme ended to ascertain how successfully they had kept the weight off. The dieters who had initially lost the most weight also ended up with the best long-term results.
