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A diet low in sugar (like low-carb diet) can provide faster results in weight loss, but a new study suggests that a diet low in fat is best for losing weight over the long term and to maintain a healthy weight then.

Officials of the study found that obese people who followed a diet low in fat are more likely to stabilize their weight during the three years that have followed the diet than those who dieted reduced carbohydrate (low sugars).

Although participants who made the diet low in sugars have lost more weight 12 months after the start of the scheme (compared to those who have made the system lighter in fat), they gained more weight during the 24 months following . Conversely, participants who had the low fat diet maintained their weight loss.

As part of the study, researchers started with a group of 132 obese people who weighed an average of 131 pounds before taking either a low fat diet (low calorie diet with less than 30% of daily calories from fat) or a diet low in sugar (low-calorie diet with less than 30 grams of sugar per day) for 12 months.

After six months of the plan, the group that followed the diet lost weight more sugar, but 12 months after the start of the schemes, there was no significant difference between the two groups.

Three years after the start of the study (that is to say, two years after the end of plans), researchers analyzed 40 people in the group “diet low sugar” and 48 people in the group “low fat diet .

The researchers found that people group “sugar diet” weighed an average of 2.2 kilograms less than before starting their diet. Those of the “low fat diet” weighed 4.3 kilograms less than before starting their diet.

The researchers found that although both types of plans are able to lose weight, method of weight change was different between the groups’ diet low sugar “and” low fat diet.

The differences in recovery of weight lost between the two groups probably reflect the initial weight loss according to the researchers. Participants who lost more weight during the first 12 months tend to take more weight when doing a review after three years.