These two
dietary factors alone draw water from our body and yet many people consume more coffee, black tea and alcohol in a day than they do water.
Not exact matches
Because people tend to like sweet foods and drinks, some argue that they can be easily over-eaten, leading to excess energy intake, though consumption of sweet foods and drinks
alone, when all other
dietary factors are controlled for, is not associated with weight gain.
Also striking is to understand that while exercise
alone can increase intestinal permeability due to reduced splanchnic perfusion,
dietary factors such as high carbohydrate intake may also contribute to GI dysfunction (Pfeiffer et al., 2009; Pfeiffer et al., 2012; van Wijck, Lenaerts, van Loon, Peters, Buurman and Dejong, 2011).
The success of the Pritikin diet was probably due to a number of
factors having nothing to do with reduction in
dietary fat — weight loss
alone, for example, will precipitate a reduction in blood cholesterol levels — but Pritikin soon found that the fat - free diet presented many problems, not the least of which was the fact that people just could not stay on it.