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Any weight-loss diet must have two crucial elements. First, it must improve your body’s existing appetite and weight control system. That is essentially why most orthodox dietary regimens fail: they ask you to restrict calories by eating less, tell you to burn away the calories you do eat by moving more, and often deprive you of fatty, protein-rich

Perhaps not surprisingly, the ideal dietary regime for weight loss is the same one that will optimize health and longevity.

proof. In the 1950s, Kekwick and Pawan at the University of London in England published a landmark study. They put patients on a diet that was low in calories (1,000 calories) but high in fat. In fact, fat supplied 90 percent of the total calories. What happened? Those patients lost significant amounts of weight. When the same patients were put on

Hunter-gatherer societies around the world have incredibly different diets, some of them very extreme, and almost never suffer from obesity.

A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine put 811 overweight adults through four different diets, each one a different proportion of fat, carbohydrates, and protein. The result? On average, participants lost twelve pounds after six months and kept nine pounds off after two years. No matter which diet they followed. Certainly, some di