“Permanently improving your diet has long-lasting health benefits, regardless of changes in weight, researchers say.  A new study followed individuals after a dietary intervention, and has found that even if people regain weight, a healthy diet still brings significant positive  benefits to the body.

Mediterranean and low-carbohydrate diets have lasting, healthy effects, even with partial weight regain, according to a follow-up study by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Israel’s Nuclear Research Center.”

So, there is the benefit of losing weight, but now research shows that these diets, if maintained as a new lifestyle, have overall lasting beneficial benefits to your health!  Mediterranean diets do have some bread, but in small amounts and added in after you have had weight loss.

when you have lost the weight….

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