Friday, January 20, 2006
The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.: A new study appears to throw another kink into the accepted wisdom regarding weight-loss diets.This study, whose results appeared recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, included more than 48,000 women, ages 50 to 79, who were followed for an average of seven years and six months. One group of women lowered the fat in their diets while increasing fruits, vegetables and whole grains. The other group didn't change their diets significantly.
The results were startlingly unspectacular. The low-fat group lost, on average, 4.8 pounds in the first year, then regained most of that weight. The non-diet group stayed at about the same weight over the seven years.