The Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment recently published a report on the Dietary Treatment of Obesity(Google translated from Swedish)
This report which took 2 years to prepare is likely to be the basis for future dietary guidelines for obesity treatment within the Swedish health care system.
According to the report, short-term studies (under six months) show a low-carbohydrate diet, is clearly more effective than today’s conventional advice, with a greater increase in HDL cholesterol without any adverse affects on LDL cholesterol. This applies to both the moderate low-carbohydrate intake of less than 40% of total energy intake, as well as to a stricter low-carbohydrate diet, where carbohydrate forms less than 20% of total energy intake. After 6 months, studies show no statistically significant differences among different diets. The committee suggests that this is because people tend to fall back into their old ways of eating.
A review of the report's findings can be found here: link
For info, I did a quick calculation and, based on diet where calories are restricted to 1500cal(a typical diet recommendation), 40% of energy from carbs represents 150g of carbs and 20% is, of course, 75g.
This report which took 2 years to prepare is likely to be the basis for future dietary guidelines for obesity treatment within the Swedish health care system.
According to the report, short-term studies (under six months) show a low-carbohydrate diet, is clearly more effective than today’s conventional advice, with a greater increase in HDL cholesterol without any adverse affects on LDL cholesterol. This applies to both the moderate low-carbohydrate intake of less than 40% of total energy intake, as well as to a stricter low-carbohydrate diet, where carbohydrate forms less than 20% of total energy intake. After 6 months, studies show no statistically significant differences among different diets. The committee suggests that this is because people tend to fall back into their old ways of eating.
A review of the report's findings can be found here: link
For info, I did a quick calculation and, based on diet where calories are restricted to 1500cal(a typical diet recommendation), 40% of energy from carbs represents 150g of carbs and 20% is, of course, 75g.
