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Counting calories not the key to weight loss

A new study has found that diet quality, not quantity, is what helps people lose and manage their weight most easily in the long run

New York

ANYONE who has ever been on a diet knows that the standard prescription for weight loss is to reduce the amount of calories you consume.

But a new study, published on Tuesday in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), may turn that advice on its head. It found that people who cut back on added sugar, refined grains and highly processed foods while concentrating on eating plenty of vegetables and whole foods - without worrying about counting calories or limiting portion sizes - lost significant amounts of weight over the course of a year.

The strategy worked for people whether they followed diets that were mostly low in fat or mostly low in carbohydrates. And their success did...

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