An overweight individual following a low-fat or a low-carbohydrate diet does not lose much weight even after a year, reveals a new study.

‘Even a person's genetic makeup or their insulin secretion level is not associated with weight loss.’

Other studies have reported a person's insulin secretion may explain different weight loss.




About 609 overweight adults enrolled in a randomized clinical trial from January 2013 through April 2015 with follow-up through May 2016.
Adults followed either a healthy low-fat or healthy low-carbohydrate diet (interventions); weight change at 12 months and a determination about whether there were significant links between the type of diet and a person's genetic makeup, insulin secretion levels and weight loss (outcomes).
This was a randomized clinical trial (RCT), which allows the strongest inferences to be made about the true effect of an intervention.
However, not all RCT results can be replicated in real-world settings because patient characteristics or other variables may differ from those studied in the RCT.
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A person's genetic makeup or insulin secretion level at the start of the study was not associated with effects on weight loss.
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Source-Eurekalert