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calorie restriction diets and health.
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When is a calorie not a calorie?
The second Golden Rule of orthodoxy is: 'A calorie is a calorie is a calorie' ? no matter where it comes from. This means that if you eat X number of calories more than you use up, you will put on Y amount of weight, wherever those calories come from. However, as has been demonstrated over and over again from many studies looking at diets with equal calorie content, but different constituents, this is far from true. Dieters on fat-based diets consistently lost much more weight than dieters on carb-based diets, even though both diets had exactly the same number of calories.'
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'Researchers claim that Breakfast really could be the most important meal of the day when it comes to losing weight. Over several months, obese women who ate half their daily calories first thing fared better than those eating a much smaller amount.
"My guess is that eating breakfast helps you spread out your hunger and manage your food intake better throughout the day," said a study author Dr. James O. Hill, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.' Read more...
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'Calorie restriction leads scientists to molecular pathways that slow aging, improve health.,
Organisms from yeast to rodents to humans all benefit from cutting calories. In less complex organisms, restricting calories can double or even triple lifespan. It's not yet clear just how much longer calorie restriction might help humans live, but those who practice the strict diet hope to survive past 100 years old.'
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