Most diets seek through the control of carbohydrates and fats, to maintain or reduce weight, specifying the consumption of proteins as the most suitable nutritional group for the programming of any type of diet program.
In recent years the science of nutrition made judgments that confronted the high protein content with low carbohydrates and low fat content, against high-carbohydrate diets, as evidence has been provided that a low-carbohydrate diet may help you lose weight more quickly than a low-fat diet, although the evidence so far is short-term.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, carried out on overweight women, premenopausal women undergoing the diets: Atkins, Zone and Ornish, contrasted with a standard low-fat, moderate-high-fat diet carbohydrates and proteins, that the first six months with the first diets achieved a significant weight reduction, but after that time most of the women began to regain the weight.
At the end of a year the women of the group Atkins They had lost more weight since the start of the study (10 pounds), compared to the other two where they lost 5 and 3 pounds respectively, but the study found that the low-carb, low-fat, and high-protein contrast diet mediterranean styleIt worked equally well in the long run than atkins and there was no speed advantage from one diet to the next.
In some studies it shows that high protein and low carbohydrates seem to work faster than diets based on low fat and high carbohydrates, at least in the short term, but what most of the nutritional studies is that there is no last word, and therefore must continue to extend over time to achieve the best results.