Low-fat diets may reduce the risk of early death in obese adults. These data support public health measures to prevent and help lose weight.
Diets do not only have an aesthetic virtue. For the obese, they reduce the risk of early death. According to a study published in the BMJ, weight loss diets may reduce the risk of early death in obese adults.
However, researchers were unable to show whether there was an additive benefit from low fat and whether the benefit was for heart disease and cancer. However, research provides further evidence of clinical benefits associated with these diets, which have already been shown to prevent type 2 diabetes.
Difficult to target the benefits
Their study, carried out over the period 1966 to 2016, involved 54 trials with more than 30,000 adults receiving at least one year of follow-up. Researchers have not been able to prove the positive effect of weight loss diets on heart problems and cancer risk. The authors also point out that they were unable to demonstrate the differences between adults who had followed a simple diet or a diet associated with physical activity: “We do not have enough data to examine whether other types of diet or of physical activity influence the results or whether certain groups of the population are more or less likely to benefit ”.
Nonetheless, they claim: “These data support public health measures aimed at preventing weight gain and facilitating weight loss using this type of diet.”
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