Most of us could stand to lose a few pounds, though only five or 10. But it is often difficult to get started when you respect your same old routine of cooking and eating the same foods and simply reducing the calories. To boost your weight loss, suggests a recent study, try putting the meat and going vegetarian.
For the study, which appeared recently in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, researchers followed 74 people with type 2 diabetes during the six months they have been on a vegetarian diet - vegetables, cereals, legumes, fruits, nuts and a Low fat yogurt one day - or specially designed to treat diabetes including 50% carbohydrates, 20% protein and less than 30% fat per day.
At the end of the study, the vegetarian diet gained with results showing that it was almost twice as effective as the diabetic diet, people with 7kilo mean lost compared to only 3 kilos. And they swept body fat from subjects after weight loss and found that only vegetable eaters lost layers of fat or sub-fascial fat below the connective tissue band under the skin and the intramuscular fat was dropped In the vegetarian diet.
"Vegetarian diets have proven to be the most effective diets for weight loss," said lead author Hana Kahleová, MD, Ph.D., director of clinical research at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, DC " However, it also showed that a vegetarian diet is much more effective at reducing muscle fat, which improves metabolism. This is important for people trying to lose weight, including those with metabolic syndrome and / or type diabetes 2, but it's also relevant to anyone who takes weight management seriously and wants to stay lean and healthy. "
