Calorie Density Diets - Popular Diets: Obesity
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Calorie-density diets
Book: Volumetrics
Rationale. According to this plan, developed by nutrition researcher Barbara Rolls, focusing on foods that fill the belly without adding too many calories may help you shed pounds. Foods with a high water content — such as fruits, vegetables, low-fat milk, cooked grains, beans, soups, and stews — get the thumbs up, while high-fat foods like potato chips get the thumbs down, as do dry, calorie-dense ones like pretzels, crackers, and fat-free cookies.
Bottom line. This strategy helps people lose weight the same way most other diets do — it narrows your choices so you take in fewer calories each day. Whether it has a long-term role for weight control isn't known.
| Last updated: | June 20, 2007 |
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