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Diets and dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight…

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In most cases a diet or dieting is used in combination with physical exercise to lose weight.

If you are overweight or obese, everyone tells you to get on a diet.

On the other hand, some women aspire to gain weight (usually in the form lean muscle).

Diets can also be used to maintain a stable body weight.

Diets used to promote weight loss are generally divided into four categories:

1. Low-fat (low fat diet)
2. Low-carbohydrate or low carb, (carb diet, low carb diet )
3. Low-calorie (low calorie diet)
4. Very low calories diet

A meta-analysis or systematic review of six randomized controlled trials found no difference between the main diet types.

Low calorie, low carbohydrate, and low fat with 2–4 kilogram weight loss in all studies.

 At two years mark, all calorie-reduced diet types cause equal weight loss irrespective of the macronutrients emphasized.

Different types of diets like low-fat diets, low-carbohydrate diets, low-calorie diets, very low-calorie diets effects and/or influences:

• Low carbohydrate versus low fat
• Low glycemic index
• Fat loss versus muscle loss
• Energy obtained from food
• Proper nutrition
• How your body gets rid of fat
• Psychological aspects of weight-loss dieting

Low-fat diets

Low-carbohydrate diets

• These types of diets are very popular in the press but are not recommended by the American Heart Association.
• A review of 107 studies did not find that low-carbohydrate diets cause weight loss, except when calorie intake was restricted.
• No adverse effects from low carbohydrate diets were detected.

• Most elite athletes use carbohydrates for sprinting or resistance training as carbs supply 30% or more during aerobic exercise.

Low-calorie diets

• Which can result in a 0.5 kilogram (1.1 lb) weight loss per week.
• They include the DASH diet and Weight Watchers among others.

• National Institutes of Health found these diets lowered total body mass by 8% over 3–12 months.

Very low-calorie diets

• These types of diets subject your body to starvation and produce an average weekly weight loss of 1.5–2.5 kilograms (3.3–5.5 lb).
• These diets are not recommended for general use.

• People attempting very low calorie diets must be monitored closely by a physician for health complications.

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