Healthy Weight Loss
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There are no magic diets, pills, or operations for long-term, healthy weight loss.A useful approach is to select the best diet that works for you.This is the eating plan you can live with. What You Need to Know About Weight LossA total of 3500 calories equals 1 pound of body weight.This means if you decrease (or increase) your intake by 500 calories daily, you will lose (or gain) 1 pound per week.(500 calories per day × 7 days = 3500 calories.)All foods have carbohydrate, protein, and fat.Carbohydrates provide 4 calories per gram.Proteins provide 4 calories per gram.Fats provide 9 calories per gram.Carbohydratesareeithersimpleorcomplex.Simplecarbohydrates cause more weight gain than complex carbohydrates.Simple carbohydrates include sugar and starches (potatoes, pasta, and rice).Complex carbohydrates include fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
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The old guidance that modest diet changes produce steady substantial weight loss at one pound per 3500 kcal deficit is mistaken.
“Outdated guidance to physicians and their patients gives the mistaken impression that relatively modest diet changes will consistently and progressively result in substantial weight loss at rate of one pound for every 3500 kcal of accumulated dietary calorie deficit21–24.”
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- Authors
- Guth, E.
- Corresponding author
- Guth, Eve
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2014-09-03
- Volume
- 312
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 974
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- OpenAlex
- W1977213157
- Semantic Scholar
- 165238e8a31d31e421184a1d2089eb6d6a35e6f6
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 2.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- JAMA (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Diet and metabolism studies
- Keywords
- weight loss, caloric deficit, macronutrients, carbohydrates, monosaccharides, complex carbohydrates, diet planning, long-term weight maintenance
- MeSH terms
- Diet, Reducing, Humans, Weight Loss, Overweight
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