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Jul 31

Anytime Gal: Are diet foods key to long-term weight loss? – Jacksonville Daily Progress

QUESTION: My friend stocks her cupboards with low-calorie versions of everything and seems to be losing weight. Are diet foods really the key to long-term weight management?

ANSWER: Diet foods can certainly help, but they have to be used in moderation, just like anything else. When theyre used as a crutch, achieving your weight loss goals can be much more difficult. Look what happened in the 1980s and 90s when low-fat diets were all the rage. People consumed fat-free cookies, low-fat muffins and reduced-fat chips in an effort to lose weight, and the nations waistline continued to bulge. Fat intake dropped slightly (still a higher amount than healthy standards), but carbohydrate intake skyrocketed, resulting in an increase in total calories for many folks. Bottom lineeven supposed health foods can make weight loss difficult if you simply eat too much of the packaged foods and not enough produce, beans, and other real foods.

Andrea Ivins is the club manager and Zumba Instructor at Anytime Fitness in Palestine, TX. To submit a question for future articles, please contact the author at palestinetx@anytimefitness.com or thrivingivins.com.

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