Key Diet: Count Calories

Limit your intake of calories, and always burn calories in the exercise

Dietary choices are very diverse. You can only do low-fat diets, low-carb or high-protein. But the important thing of all is the calorie counting diet right.
According to recent studies, all kinds of diets can produce ideal weight origin limit the number of calories that enter the body.

Previously we often hear, the key to weight loss is low-carb diet. Even the diet is said to be more effective than low-fat diet.
But a study conducted in the United States for two years found that the most important thing is how much calories in and out.

"The secret is not on a diet lows in fat or carbohydrates," said Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, head researcher of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "But, by limiting calorie intake and burn with sport."

The results were published Thursday, February 26, in the New England Journal of Medicine, by the Harvard School of Public Health and Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, USA.

The study was conducted on 811 adults who are overweight. Each respondent has a fat content, protein and carbohydrates differently. The respondents were required to reduce 750 calories per day and exercising for 90 minutes every week.

During the course of the program, respondent still consume dairy products and meat. They also must always be met with a nutritionist to monitor the development of diet. As a result, the average of the respondents managed to reduce 6.5 kg in six months. Within two years they were able to get the ideal body weight.

But not all respondents itu.Responden obtain results that more often comes to a nutritionist to get better results.

According to one researcher, Dr. Frank Sacks, routinely meet with a nutritionist to make their diet program is monitored on an ongoing basis and the calorie content in food is limited.

"They should focus more on the content of calories consumed in a meal," said Sacks.

But some other researchers doubt the respondents still able to maintain their weight if it is no longer in the monitoring of nutrition.

"Although the respondents have the high motivation, as they escape from a nutritionist would be difficult to maintain their weight," says Martijn Katan from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.