M*********s
发帖数: 1086 | 1 This article appeared in the May 25, 2014 issue of The New York Times
Magazine.
4 Days, 11 Pounds
Losing weight is simple: Ingest fewer calories than your body burns. But how
best to do that is unclear. Most experts advise small reductions in
calories or increases in exercise to remove weight slowly and sensibly, but
many people quit that type of program in the face of glacial progress. A new
study, published in March in The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science
in Sports, suggests that minimal calories and maximal exercise can
significantly reduce body fat in just four days — and the loss lasts for
months. The catch, of course, is that those four days are pretty grueling.
Researchers in Spain and Sweden had 15 healthy but overweight Swedish men
restrict their calories to about 360 a day, a reduction of approximately 1,
800 calories. What calories they did ingest came in liquid form: Some men
drank mostly sugary carbohydrates, others a high-protein drink. The men also
exercised — a lot. Their days began with 45 minutes of cranking an arm-
pedaling machine for an upper-body workout. Then, as a group, the men
strolled for eight hours across the Swedish countryside, with only a 10-
minute break every hour. They were allowed as much of a low-calorie, sports-
type beverage as they wanted during their walks.
Most of the men “were surprised that it was easier than they thought it
would be,” says José Calbet, a professor at the University of Las Palmas
de Gran Canaria in Spain; he and his colleague Hans-Christer Holmberg, a
professor at Mid Sweden University in Ostersund, led the study. Some of the
subjects experienced “minor problems with pain in the joints” and blisters
on their feet, according to Calbet, but none dropped out or complained of
hunger.
After four days, the men had each lost almost 11 pounds, with nearly half of
that coming from body fat; the rest of the loss came primarily from muscle
mass. The researchers had anticipated that the high-protein drink would
protect people against muscle-mass loss. In fact, the losses were the same,
whether the men had been given sugar or protein.
More surprising, the men did not immediately put the weight back on after
the study ended. “We thought they would overeat and regain the weight lost,
” Dr. Calbet says. Instead, when the volunteers returned a month later,
most had lost another two pounds of fat. And a year after the experiment,
they were still down five pounds, mostly in lost body fat.
Dr. Calbet and his colleagues hope to study whether women respond similarly
to men and whether repeated bouts of such a program might affect muscular
health and appetite hormones.
But given the doleful statistics on weight loss — most people regain
everything they lose dieting and more — these results are startling. They
also, at the moment, are inexplicable. “The only explanation we can offer”
for the sustained loss, Dr. Calbet says, is that the men were inspired by
their hypercompressed success to change their lifestyles. The men moved more
and ate less than before. | b*********t
发帖数: 877 | 2 The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports？这杂志也太差了点
。。。
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Science
【在 M*********s 的大作中提到】
: This article appeared in the May 25, 2014 issue of The New York Times
: Magazine.
: 4 Days, 11 Pounds
: Losing weight is simple: Ingest fewer calories than your body burns. But how
: best to do that is unclear. Most experts advise small reductions in
: calories or increases in exercise to remove weight slowly and sensibly, but
: many people quit that type of program in the face of glacial progress. A new
: study, published in March in The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science
: in Sports, suggests that minimal calories and maximal exercise can
: significantly reduce body fat in just four days — and the loss lasts for
| b*********s
发帖数: 5382 | 3 我个人是支持快点减的，因为减得慢会导致基础代谢降低，于是就减得更慢，快速减，
身体还来不及反应，呼啦一下就减完了。而且心理上看见体重天天掉，会更鼓舞，不容
易放弃。 | g*****y
发帖数: 6325 | 4 sample size too small!
how
but
new
Science
【在 M*********s 的大作中提到】
: This article appeared in the May 25, 2014 issue of The New York Times
: Magazine.
: 4 Days, 11 Pounds
: Losing weight is simple: Ingest fewer calories than your body burns. But how
: best to do that is unclear. Most experts advise small reductions in
: calories or increases in exercise to remove weight slowly and sensibly, but
: many people quit that type of program in the face of glacial progress. A new
: study, published in March in The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science
: in Sports, suggests that minimal calories and maximal exercise can
: significantly reduce body fat in just four days — and the loss lasts for
| j******l
发帖数: 459 | 5 确实看见掉秤明显就很开心啊，而且这还是比预计中吃的多的情况
就是不知道之后反弹会多么明显。。。
【在 b*********s 的大作中提到】
: 我个人是支持快点减的，因为减得慢会导致基础代谢降低，于是就减得更慢，快速减，
: 身体还来不及反应，呼啦一下就减完了。而且心理上看见体重天天掉，会更鼓舞，不容
: 易放弃。
| p*********l
发帖数: 26270 | 6 不放开瞎吃，养成锻炼的习惯，就不会反弹了
【在 j******l 的大作中提到】
: 确实看见掉秤明显就很开心啊，而且这还是比预计中吃的多的情况
: 就是不知道之后反弹会多么明显。。。
| j******l
发帖数: 459 | 7 我觉得自己情绪化进食还挺明显的，这个不改就会各种震荡
【在 p*********l 的大作中提到】
: 不放开瞎吃，养成锻炼的习惯，就不会反弹了
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