US health care fails it's test yet again this yeat, with the highest infant mortality rate among all civilized/developed countries, and the most likely to die from a preventable disease. Then I read the article about the new weightloss study...here , and I wonder why we have health care problems. Keep in mind that the study was done in isreal, but our US paper wrote the article. They touted that of the three weightloss options given to patients over two years they produced similar results. Similar, being the key word here. So, you can imagine that I was rather surprised to see the results were:
After two years, dieters lost an average of 7.3 pounds (3.3 kg) on the low-fat regimen, 10 pounds (4.6 kg) on the Mediterranean diet and 12 pounds (5.5 kg) on a mostly vegetarian version of the low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, Israeli researchers reported on Wednesday.
Now, I don't know who used the word similar, but those numbers aren't similar in my mind. The Mediterranean group lost aprox. 40% more weight than the "low fat" group. I wouldn't consider that similar. If you were dieting for two years and lost 40% more weight would you consider that similar?
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