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Low-fat vegan diet cuts dietary energy density by nearly a third, helping explain weight loss

A low-fat vegan diet lowers the energy density of the foods people eat by roughly 30%, allowing them to eat satisfying amounts of food while taking in fewer calories and losing weight—without deliberately restricting calories— according…

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A low-fat vegan diet lowers the energy density of the foods people eat by roughly 30%, allowing them to eat satisfying amounts of food while taking in fewer calories and losing weight—without deliberately restricting calories— according to new research published in JAMA Network Open . In a randomized clinical trial of adults with overweight, those who adopted an ad libitum low-fat vegan diet substantially reduced how many calories were packed into each gram of food they ate.

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