Cutting Calories, Your Own Way
For many people, eating a 1500 calorie diet (instead of 2000) every day would lead to weight loss. Easy to want to do, but hard to achieve. But a recent study has shown that you could instead eat 500 calories a day for 2 days out of the week and eat your typical diet the other 5 days and lose the same amount of weight. Each group of premenopausal women cut their calories by 25%. In the study the 500 calorie day consisted of 4 cups of low fat milk, 4 half cup servings of vegetable, on serving of fruit, a salty low calorie drink and a vitamin. It supplied 50 grams of protein. After 6 months, each group lost about 13 pounds. The levels of LDL...