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ZOE Science & Nutrition · January 25, 2024 · 55m
What to Eat for Your Health — According to Science
Stanford's Christopher Gardner explains why diet wars are pointless — his landmark DIETFITS trial showed that diet quality matters more than macronutrient ratios. Whether you choose low-fat or low-carb, focusing on whole foods produces equivalent results.
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Highlights
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Diet quality trumps macronutrient ratios — the diet wars are based on a false premise
Gardner: the DIETFITS trial randomized 609 adults to healthy low-fat or healthy low-carb diets for 12 months. Both groups lost the same amount of weight. The determining factor was not carb/fat ratio — it was the quality of food consumed.•
Individual variation in dietary response is enormous — one-size-fits-all advice fails
Gardner: in the DIETFITS trial, individual weight loss ranged from losing 60 pounds to gaining 20 pounds on the same diet. Genetic testing, microbiome analysis, and insulin sensitivity did not predict who would succeed on which diet.Was this useful?