How Important Is Protein Quality for Fat Loss?
Statistics show that most weightloss regimes ultimately fall because the dieters return to previous body- fat levels. The word for this is ‘recidivism,” and the current rate for recidivism is estimated at 97 percent. There are several reasons why so many diets fail, the first one being that dieters don’t exercise. Although this isn’t as common as it used to be, some people believe that all you need to do to lose weight is go on a lower-calorie diet. This type of weight-loss philosophy is doomed. As noted in an extensively publicized study done at Rockefeller University in New York a few months ago, your body has a weight set point that it adjusts to after you gain or lose weight. This means that when you lose weight solely through dieting, your metabolism decreases in proportion to the amount of weight lost. In short, as you lose weight, you need less calories, so if you increase calories after you get to your weight goal, you end up in the 97 percentile of diet failures. It’s not diff
