Showing posts with label mind and body. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind and body. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Which diet is better for weight loss: low-fat or low-carb? Ask anyone hip to the headlines, and they’ll likely say the latter. A low-carb diet decreases a hormone called insulin, which helps regulate fat tissue—it’s thought that lowering insulin levels gives you a metabolic, fat-burning edge. “We wanted to test this theory,” says Kevin Hall, PhD, a metabolism researcher at the National...