sean99
pfm Member
Full disclaimer - I'm a vegetarian (on compassion, not personal health grounds) so I am not an impartial observer to this debate.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/primar...1433?xid=nl_popmed_2021-03-04&eun=g1465870d0r
However, to quote the article:
"it's profoundly impractical to lock people up in a room and monitor everything they eat and do. Well, that's exactly what they did over at the NIH, the National Institutes for Health, in the U.S. They convinced 21 people to spend a month locked up with all their food provided."
And the key results:
"people ate significantly less on the plant-based diet right from the beginning. they actually consumed about 700 calories less per day. Quite strikingly, this was seen in every single participant.This is simply because plant-based diets and plant-based foods are just lower in calories per gram, so you feel full and you've eaten less calories."
"With the lower caloric intake of the plant-based diet, people lost more body fat, not on the keto one. They lost more water weight on the keto diet,but body fat was not significantly reduced with the keto diet."
Discuss (grabs low carb popcorn).
https://www.medpagetoday.com/primar...1433?xid=nl_popmed_2021-03-04&eun=g1465870d0r
However, to quote the article:
"it's profoundly impractical to lock people up in a room and monitor everything they eat and do. Well, that's exactly what they did over at the NIH, the National Institutes for Health, in the U.S. They convinced 21 people to spend a month locked up with all their food provided."
And the key results:
"people ate significantly less on the plant-based diet right from the beginning. they actually consumed about 700 calories less per day. Quite strikingly, this was seen in every single participant.This is simply because plant-based diets and plant-based foods are just lower in calories per gram, so you feel full and you've eaten less calories."
"With the lower caloric intake of the plant-based diet, people lost more body fat, not on the keto one. They lost more water weight on the keto diet,but body fat was not significantly reduced with the keto diet."
Discuss (grabs low carb popcorn).