Counting food calories turns out to be more effective in reducing weight than fasting

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When losing weight, the most important thing is to count the number of calories that enter the body. Compared diet with fasting methods.

There are many methods of dieting, there is intermittent fasting which requires people to fast. There is also a calorie counting method, which is considered more effective by several researchers.

Reporting from DailyMailUK (19/01), a recent study from Johns Hopkins University found that when a person eats has no effect on weight loss. On the contrary, eating small portions that contain few calories is the main key to a diet.

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This research was published in the journal of the American Heart Association, which collected data on 550 adults from Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Participants who took part in this research were on average around 51 years old, had a college education or above, and were mostly women.

Around 240 participants were obese, while 169 participants fell into the overweight category. As well as 138 people with an ideal healthy body weight.

Counting food calories turns out to be more effective in reducing weight than fasting. Photo: iStock illustration

Researchers then used the Daily24 application, which makes it easy for all participants to record their eating and sleeping activities for a full week every month. They are also reminded via email and short message to fill in their activities.

All participants ate three meals a day, with the option of smaller meals containing less than 500 calories. Then there are two foods that contain 500-1000 calories. They were also given the opportunity to eat two large meals of more than 1,000 calories in one week.

This eating pattern makes those who are obese experience a weight loss of around 2.9 kg. While those who were overweight lost around 2.6 kg, those with a healthy weight increased by around 0.4 kg.

Counting food calories turns out to be more effective in reducing weight than fasting. Photo: iStock illustration

After collecting data for six months, researchers analyzed their meal times and their relationship to their body weight.

The results found that calculating the calorie intake that enters the body is the main important factor when trying to lose weight.

Even if someone waits a certain time or fasts before eating, or does not eat before sleeping, it turns out that this pattern does not have a significant effect on weight loss.

According to Dr Di Zhao, an epidemiologist from Johns Hopkins University and one of the leaders of this research. The research they published is observational, and cannot scientifically prove that the intermittent fasting diet does not work.

“Our findings do not support time-restricted eating as a long-term strategy for weight loss in the general population,” the study concluded.

Because this study did not find a correlation between meal times and the effect on weight loss.

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