Low Fat Diets Better for Shedding Body Fat, Study

A new study has revealed that people following a low card diet will actually lose more weight.

Researchers from America's National Institute Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases have favoured a low carb diet over a low fat one.

The scientists believe that by cutting out fat from your diet, it has better benefits to one's health.

"There is one set of beliefs that says all calories are exactly equal when it comes to body fat loss, and there's another that says carbohydrate calories are particularly fattening, so cutting those should lead to more fat loss," researcher Dr Kevin Hall said. "Our results showed that, actually, not all calories are created equal when it comes to body fat loss, but over the long term, it's pretty close.

"Obesity is a disorder of excess body fat and loss of fat is what is important for health. While people may have been more excited to see greater weight loss with the carb restricted diet, most of this weight was from water, not fat."

"We did not investigate whether one diet would be easier to stick to over another but this is likely to be a more important factor for people with obesity attempting to lose body fat in the real world," he added.