New Ways Calories Can Add Up to Weight Gain

[NYkarate]

New Ways Calories Can Add Up to Weight Gain
Study Challenges Idea That Varying Amounts of Fat, Protein and Carbohydrates Are Key to Weight Loss
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203462304577138993430777580.html

And most of you will read this and say it is about time they start getting it.

[cowboybiker]

Stopped reading when it said I have to subscribe.

[NYkarate]

Stopped reading when it said I have to subscribe.

Now that is weird. I read no problem. I found it on the Google news homepage too.

[cowboybiker]

Try this.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203462304577138993430777580.html#a rticleTabs%3Dvideo

[BillReilly]

New Ways Calories Can Add Up to Weight Gain
Study Challenges Idea That Varying Amounts of Fat, Protein and Carbohydrates Are Key to Weight Loss
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203462304577138993430777580.html

And most of you will read this and say it is about time they start getting it.

Maybe I just hung around the wrong crowd, but I always heard total calories is what drives weight. When I wrestled, it was almost an obsession. The first thing I did when getting back into my health was set my daily caloric baseline and figure out my meal plans. Until I started reading this site, I never knew people believed in magic foods that caused weight gain/loss, depending upon the magic.

Anyway, thanks for the link.

[cowboybiker]

Now that is weird. I read no problem. I found it on the Google news homepage too.the links open now.
How weird.

[MrNismo]

I get the main point of the article (I think) but damn if I'm not confused on how the moderate and high protein groups put on almost double (7-8 lbs) what the low protein group did in 12 weeks with minimal to no exercise. So the low protein group put on 7.7 lbs of PURE fat it seems and all 3 groups put on the same amount of bodyfat roughly so how do you account for that other 7-8 lbs of lean body mass?

[Brackneyc]

I get the main point of the article (I think) but damn if I'm not confused on how the moderate and high protein groups put on almost double (7-8 lbs) what the low protein group did in 12 weeks with minimal to no exercise. So the low protein group put on 7.7 lbs of PURE fat it seems and all 3 groups put on the same amount of bodyfat roughly so how do you account for that other 7-8 lbs of lean body mass?


Pure muscle. :D

[discdoggie]

Pure muscle. :D

lol

[ChocoChick]

I get the main point of the article (I think) but damn if I'm not confused on how the moderate and high protein groups put on almost double (7-8 lbs) what the low protein group did in 12 weeks with minimal to no exercise. So the low protein group put on 7.7 lbs of PURE fat it seems and all 3 groups put on the same amount of bodyfat roughly so how do you account for that other 7-8 lbs of lean body mass?

The low-protein group did not gain as much weight overall. It appears that, while they gained just as much fat as the other two groups, they lost LBM.

This link opens and includes the chart: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203462304577138993430777580-lMyQjAxMTAyMDAwNDEwNDQyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_email&mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1

[Zunehmer]

Very very interesting. Now what is missing or I at least haven't found a lot of studies is research with people that do weight training at a different calorie surplus, e.g. one group maintenance, one group 400 kcal surplus, one group 800 kcal surplus. This is very interesting but lets not forget untrained people gain muscle inititally pretty much because of everything (even people that start running initially may gain some muscle) so if someone could find research on trained population with a different calorie surplus that would be amazing.