Submitted by Armen Hareyan on Jun 19th, 2008
'Big breakfast' diet is surprisingly found to be a right way for losing weight.
The diet comes from Dr. Jakubowicz of Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been recommending the 'big breakfast' diet for over 15 years and the results are impressing. Dr. Jakubowicz suggests that traditional low-carb diet boosts appetite and slows metabolism down, so women on this diet may lose weight for a while and then increasingly gain weight again.
A study of 96 obese women, who are physically inactive, showed that big breakfast diet is really more effective that simple low-carb diets.
'Big breakfast' diet includes 1240 calories a day, 610 out of which are included in breakfast. This diet mainly consists of carbohydrates and proteins. Breakfast includes 58 grams of carbohydrates, lunch includes 395 calories, and dinner includes 235 calories.
Traditional low-carb diet includes 1085 calories a day, 290 out of which are included in breakfast. Calories mainly come from protein and fat, breakfast includes only 7 grams of carbohydrates.
During the first four months of the study low-carb dieters lost more weight (28 pounds) than 'big breakfast' dieters (23 pounds).
Just eight months after the study low-carb dieters begun gaining weight (18 pounds), but 'big breakfast' dieters kept losing weight (16.5 pounds). At the end of the study 'heavy breakfasters' lost 20% of weight, but the 'low carbers' lost only 5% of the weight. Besides, those on 'big breakfast' diet didn't feel hungry or bored and were much more easy to maintain the diet for a longer period.
Source:
Ruzanna Haroutiunyan 