Eat fat lose weight - Extra Health - Brief Article

Muscle & Fitness/Hers, Dec, 2002

If you'd rather saute with olive oil than nonstick cooking spray and can't live without peanut butter, you can still win at losing weight. Eating a diet that contains moderate levels of fat -- as opposed to a strict low-fat diet -- is easier on dieters' taste buds and may result in more long-term weight loss, explain researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

They report in the International Journal of Obesity that study subjects who ate a moderate-fat diet lost an average of 9 pounds after 12 months, while those on a low-fat diet not only gained back the weight they originally lost but added another 6 pounds from the start of the study. "Reductions in percentage bodyfat, body mass index and waist circumference were all greater in the moderate-fat group," the study concludes.