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Re:Fasting can improve overall health by olyjohn on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:27PM (#18924772)
There was a really good episode of "Explained" on Netflix that talked about diets. They took a study group, and gave half of them low-carb, and the other half a low-fat diet.

Both groups lost weight equally. They didn't lose weight because of that particular diet, they lost weight because they made better decisions daily, stopped eating out, and stopped buying processed foods.

Re:Fasting can improve overall health by nonbel on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:33PM (#18924835)
Just cancelled my netflix this morning when I heard about another rate hike (also hadn't been using it much recently). Can you share what they meant by "low carb", how long the study ran for, and how much weight was lost?

Because I can tell you one thing for sure, the reason I lost weight (and I was only slightly overweight) is because I ate less. And I ate less because I craved less food.

I'm open to the idea this is due to more home cooking rather than low carb per se but I doubt it... I could possibly test this by eating some noodles or homemade pizza or something.

Re:Fasting can improve overall health by nsxwolf on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:34PM (#18924858)
What did the study consider to be "low-carb"?
Re:Fasting can improve overall health by olyjohn on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:09PM (#18925286)
I don't recall specifically, it was a TV show I watched a few weeks back.

I find your question interesting, though. Why do you not care about what the low-fat diet was as well?

Also, since they lost weight on the low-carb diet, I can only assume that it's one that works!

Re:Fasting can improve overall health by kiliancs on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:36PM (#18928416)
This was one of the Vox episodes.