What would be your perfect Scientific study regarding diet a

whyflysouth

Okay, so there's allot of studies that are done that prove/disprove some supplement, extreme deficits in calories, etc. There was recent anecdotal one where that professor lost weight while eating just twinkies and junk food. The purpose of this post is to allow you to suggest what study you'd like to see done.

For example, you could say you'd like to see a study where sweeteners are compared, with five groups of people, one group fed foods sweetened with sugar, one sweetened w/ corn syrup, one sweetened with stevia, one sweetend with agave nectar, one sweetened with splenda, performed over a six-month period, with x, y, and z measured to see which group fared the best, etc.

Here's the study I'd like to see:

3 groups of people:
1st group has 200 obese people who are around 100 lbs overweight.
2nd group has 200 overweight people who are around 30 lbs overweight.
3rd group are 200 healthy weight people who would like to lose 10 lbs.

I'd like the study to have 100 people from each of these groups eating at 70% of maintenance calories, and the other 100 people from each of these groups eating at 50% maintenance for, oh, idk maybe 1 month duration.

During that time I'd like their body weight and body composition measured to see how much fat was lost and how much muscle was lost. Relative % and all. My guess would be the 100 obese people who ate at 50% maintenance would've lost more fat relative to muscle loss than the 100 who ate at 70%, but the 100 healthy weight people who ate at 50% would've lost more muscle relative to fat when compared to the healthy weight people who ate at 70%. You get where I'm going with this...

Some people are 50-100+ lbs overweight so they start with MFP and want to restrict themselves down to 1200 cals/day, while others are 10-25 lbs overweight and they decide to do the same thing, both will lose weight, but I imagine the 2nd group loses more muscle than they would've liked. I'm curious as to how the body decides which thing to cut from.

daryls

I would like to see a study that studies mood and exercise compared to mood and caloric restriction in people who are moderately overweight.

Basically, three groups of people, all overweight by approx. 20 pounds, would be given inventories on mood (2) prior to the change. Then one group would exercise moderately 5 times per week, one group would restrict their calories and one group would have no change. The mood inventories would then be given every 2 weeks for 6 months.

kayemme

I would like to see a study done where control groups of all sizes to watch television or not watch television and compare their shopping patterns. and maybe even eating habits (including waste)

randyv99

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