Losing weight is hard – so it’s appealing to seize onto any promise of an eating plan or trick that will help you lose pounds quickly. Almost daily, we’re targeted with new tales telling us what things to eat, what never to eat, when to eat and how to consume. Some of these reports are backed by technology, but others are myths, sometimes rooted in someone taking the full total results from one type of research and applying them to another situation completely.
Many of the “diet tricks” originated from observational studies in which researchers observed that normal-weight people change from obese people in certain health habits. But to learn whether or not these practices shall cause weight reduction, you need to specifically test whether people who are obese can actually lose weight if they adopt the behaviors. The golden standard to check these would be in a randomized controlled trial, where people would be assigned at random to look at the habit or even to a control group that helps to keep their old behaviors. When put to this rigorous test, many of the plain things identified in observational studies have been found to be worthless as weight-loss tools.
Also, in the wonderful world of diet and weight reduction, if it sounds too good to be true, it is probably. The very best weight loss interventions produce an average 10 percent weight loss over six months. If you weigh 90 Kgs, you could expect to lose 9 Kgs carrying …