{"id":2923,"date":"2014-09-02T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T21:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2014-09-05T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:50:48","slug":"dieting-do-whatever-works-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/dieting-do-whatever-works-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieting? Do whatever works for you<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new meta-analysis of dozens of \u201cbrand-name\u201d diets finds that while most are better than no diet at all, there is not much difference between them. The study looked at 48 randomized trials containing a total of nearly 7300 overweight individuals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In terms of amount of weight lost, low-carbohydrate diets give a slight advantage at the 6-month mark. However, after 12 months the amount of weight lost averaged out at about 16 pounds among both low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors suggest that patients choose diets based on how easily each individual can stick to the rules of the diet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?doi=10.1001\/jama.2014.10397\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>September 2, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bradley Johnston, McMaster University and Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new meta-analysis of dozens of \u201cbrand-name\u201d diets finds that while most are better than no diet at all, there is not much difference between them. The study looked at 48 randomized trials containing a total of nearly 7300 overweight individuals. In terms of amount of weight lost, low-carbohydrate diets give a slight advantage at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,650,50,476,2158],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-ontario","tag-public-health","tag-weight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-L9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}