Not exact matches
At the
end of the year, people in the standard
diet group and the fasting
group lost similar amounts of weight compared with those who didn't do any type of
diet at all.
Many times, actually, vegetarian
diets (that include all food
groups and are not just a medley of pizza, French fries, ice cream, and soy chicken nuggets)
end up being healthier than those of omnivores».
The intermittent
diet group maintained an average weight loss of 8 kg more than the continuous
diet group, six months after the
end of the
diet.
By the
end of the experiment, the
groups on restricted and unpredictable
diets had eaten the same amount of calories.
«The LC
group ended up with a
diet comprising 30 % carbohydrate, 49 % fat, and 21 % protein.
After the
end of the study, people with the new Danish
diet observed their systolic and diastolic blood pressure drop by 5.1 and 3.2 mmHg more than in the
group with the average Danish
diet.
The rats fed the blueberry
diet enjoyed substantially lower oxidative stress by the
end of the study, while the other
group displayed a big deterioration of antioxidant levels.
At study's
end, both
groups following the enhanced Mediterranean
diets had a 30 percent reduction in their risk of heart attack, stroke, or death by cardiovascular means — an impressive result.
This negative result may have been influenced by the fact that the
diets in the two
groups ended up relatively similar.
Attrition rates tend to be lower on LC
diets (more people make it to the
end) despite arguments by dietitians about LC
diets being harder to stick to because they eliminate entire food
groups.
The
group with the monounsaturated fats saw higher good cholesterol levels two weeks into the
diet, and, by the
end of the month, they had a 12.5 percent increase in good cholesterol.
What I find fascinating is that these
groups are every bit as passionate about their dietary approach as the plant - based vegans at the other
end of the dietary spectrum who also claim that their
diet was responsible for healing them of all their ailments.
When the trial
ended, Arciero and his team found that although both
groups improved on nearly every measure, those who had followed the protein - pacing and antioxidant - rich
diet showed the greatest improvements in fitness, including upper body muscular endurance and power, core strength, and blood vessel health (reduced artery stiffness) among female participants; and upper and lower body muscular strength and power, aerobic power, and lower back flexibility among male participants.