A guide to cutting calories—but not snacks
by Megan O. Steintrager
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I n our recent diet poll, Epicurious editors asked you to tell us which is the best diet choice: low-carb, low-sugar, low-fat, or low-calorie
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You're smart cookies, according to many nutrition and healthy-eating experts. "All diets are about calories, no matter what they're called—they all reduce calories, otherwise you wouldn't lose weight, " says Dr. Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University (the department she chaired from 1988–2003) and author of Food Politics, Safe Food, and the James Beard Award–winning What to Eat.
The results of our poll taken November 11–December 13, 2007
"A reduced-calorie diet is the only effective diet for weight loss," agrees Monica Reinagel, chief nutritionist for our sister site NutritionData.com and author of The Inflammation Free Diet Plan. "You can eat a low-carb diet, a low-fat diet
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Keri M. Gans, a registered dietician, president of the New York State Dietetic Association, and a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, echoes Reinagel, saying that "a long list of 'You Can Never Eat It Again' sets you up for failure." Or, as Marion Nestle puts it in her characteristically droll tone, "Life is too short to not eat carbohydrates."
We listened to you, consulted the experts
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