Eating less not the best way to lose weight, study shows

❓I am 65 years old I eat very little fried foods junk fast foods do not drink sodas nor alcoholic beverages I still cannot lose weight why

Eating less not the best way to lose weight, study shows

New research, published in the journal Appetite, suggests that, when it comes to dieting, it’s not how much you eat — but rather, what you eat — that influences calorie intake the most

Opting for more healthful foods, such as salads, may be more important than the amount of food that we eat.

 

Faris Zuraikat, a graduate student in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, led the new study, which follows up from a previous 1-year randomized controlled trial that investigated how different food portions influenced weight loss.

The former trial aimed to explore the so-called “portion size effect,” which occurs when people are served bigger portions than what they originally wanted but end up eating more nonetheless.

To this end, the previous trial trained the participants to gain more control over their portions, presenting them with useful strategies for portion size management.

In this new trial study, the researchers wanted to see if people who had been previously trained to manage their portions would respond differently to increasing portion sizes by comparison with untrained people.

As the study’s first author explains, the researchers “[w]ere also interested in whether those untrained individuals with overweight and obesity or normal weight differed in their response.

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