{"id":3306,"date":"2011-01-28T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatnutritionist.com\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2011-01-28T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:08:50","slug":"fat-counterfat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatnutritionist.com\/index.php\/fat-counterfat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat \/ counterfat."},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a little counterpoint piece<\/a> for Consider<\/em>. (Up against the Senior Dietitian for the University of Michigan Health System\u2019s Bariatric Surgery Program — hardly a fair fight!)<\/p>\n

But you want to read something that truly blows this out of the water? Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor (two women who each have a large chunk of my heart — and please note that Lucy is a DIETITIAN. Yes, fat-accepting dietitians do<\/em> exist; here’s another one<\/a>) have just published a piece in BioMed Central’s Nutrition Journal<\/em> — which means the full text is available to everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n

Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Assumption: Anyone who is determined can lose weight and keep it off through appropriate diet and exercise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Evidence: Long-term follow-up studies document that the majority of individuals regain virtually all of the weight that was lost during treatment, regardless of whether they maintain their diet or exercise program [5, 27]. Consider the Women\u2019s Health Initiative, the largest and longest randomized, controlled dietary intervention clinical trial, designed to test the current recommendations. More than 20,000 women maintained a low-fat diet, reportedly reducing their calorie intake by an average of 360 calories per day [102] and significantly increasing their activity [103]. After almost eight years on this diet, there was almost no change in weight from starting point (a loss of 0.1 kg), and average waist circumference, which is a measure of abdominal fat, had increased<\/strong> (0.3 cm) [102].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Learn it. Know it. Live it.<\/p>\n