The optimum diet for reducing obesity is high in protein and low in refined starches.
Researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen, unveiled the results of the world's largest diet study: If you want to lose weight, you should maintain a diet that is high in proteins with more lean meat, low-fat dairy products and beans and fewer finely refined starch calories such as white bread and white rice.
The large-scale random study called Diogenes investigated the optimum diet composition for preventing and treating obesity. The study was conducted by eight European research centres and headed by Thomas Meinert Larsen, PhD, and Professor Arne Astrup, DrMedSc and Head of Department at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE) and is funded by an EU grant of EUR 14.5 million.
The objective of the Diogenes study was to compare the official dietary recommendations in Europe with a diet based on the latest knowledge about the importance of proteins and carbohydrates for appetite regulation
A diet consisting of a slightly higher protein content and low Glucose Index foods appears to be easier to observe and has been documented to ensure that overweight people who have lost weight maintain their weight loss.
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