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Do Very Low Fat Diets Work
"Eat More Weigh Less" Dean Ornish "Pritkin" Weight Loss Breakthrough
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Do Very Low Fat Diets Work?

Two well-known very-low-fat diets are Eat More, Weigh Less by Dean Ornish, and The Pritikin Weight Loss Breakthrough by Robert Pritikin.

Short-Term Effectiveness of Very Low Fat Diets

Not such rapid visible initial weight loss as with a high-protein, low-carb diet, as more fluid will be retained; but fat loss will definitely occur if the instructions are followed.

Long-Term Effectiveness of Very Low Fat Diets

If continued, the diet will work to help overweight people lose weight. Because satiety is good it may produce long-term compliance but on the other hand the sweeping changes needed may make it a hard diet to stick to for other reasons and there is evidence that a more moderate low-fat diet is easier to follow in the long-term.

Very Low Fat Diets - How Easy

While the lists of allowed and banned foods are straightforward and there is no need to count calories, in practice it is quite hard to make the allowed foods into inviting meals and a lot of new techniques need to be learnt, and sweeping changes made for people used to following a typical Western diet.

Reducing the fat content of your diet as low as 10-15 percent means that for most people the diet will not be very palatable, at least to begin with.

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