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| Total Diet - dietary guideline for healthy eating |
Definition
Total Diet refers to a program that focuses on losing weight by consuming only a diet that is elaborately composed of 8-10 calories of soup, shakes and bars a day. Until now, there have been concerns that such a diet could gain weight again quickly and not be good for weight loss. British researchers have found that it is not the case, but rather it can be excellent at losing weight.(2018. 10.)
A complete diet replacement program ('total diet') refers to stopping what one eats normally and completely changing one's diet for a period of time with a customized diet of 810 calories a day, including soups, shakes, and bars, prepared by experts. Researchers at Oxford University in the U.K. found that such a total diet had three times the weight loss effect of a diet controlled by a doctor.
The full diet replacement program is not known in the U.K., so the NHS (National Health Insurance) does not currently recognize it. However, the findings, published by researchers in the British Medical Journal "BMJ," show that the program could be one of the best measures for obese people.
Research
Researchers randomly recruited 278 adults who were overweight and wanted to lose weight in Oxfordshire, England. Participants either participated in a two-way total diet for 24 weeks or in a weight loss program managed by a specialist. For total diet participants, only 810 calories a day consisting of milk, water and fiber supplements, along with specially prepared soups, shakes and bars, were advised to eat for eight weeks. These foods are made up of perfect nutrition. After that, it gradually changed to regular food over four weeks. In the process, they were regularly consulted by experts to make appropriate diets and maintain weight loss. Since then, 12 to 24 weeks have been recommended to eat normal food but one meal a day as the total diet.
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| Total diet is better than common diet |
A year later, a survey of the weight showed that participants in the total diet program lost 10.7 kilograms on average. The figure is 7.2 kilograms more than the average loss of 3.5 kilograms for participants in a specialist's weight management program. At the same time, the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes also decreased further. 45% of total diet participants achieved a weight loss of more than 10%, while only 15% of the program participants in the doctor's program.
"We have in the past been concerned that short-term, fast weight loss could lead to short-term weight gain again," said Susan Jebb, a professor at the University of Oxford's Nouffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. However, the study showed that even after an intensive nine-month weight loss period, participants could lose three times more weight than other traditional methods," he said.
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