It Pays to Eat Less as You Age
While it may sound painfully obvious, nutrition experts have been divided over whether cutting calories leads to long-term weight loss, because the practice can sometimes boomerang, triggering binge eating and weight gain.
But, new research suggests that eating less can pay big dividends, particularly as you age.
Publishing in the current issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion, researchers from Brigham Young University reported that the middle-aged women they studied had more than twice the risk of significant weight gain if they didn’t cut back on food consumption.
“Some suggest that restrained eating is not a good practice,” BYU professor Larry Tucker, the study’s lead author, said in a university news release. “Given the environmental forces in America’s food industry, not practicing restraint is essentially a guarantee of failure.”
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