According to lead author Dr. David Ludwig, Endocrinologist at Boston Children Hospital and a Professor at Harvard Medical School, “the energy balance model doesn’t help us understand the biological causes of weight gain.
During a growth spurt, for instance, adolescents may increase food intake by 1,000 calories a day. But does their overeating cause the growth spurt or does the growth spurt cause the adolescent to get hungry and overeat?”
The researchers states that the modern dietary pattern should be blamed for current obesity epidemic. Today, our diet regime includes foods that are high on glycemic index, processed and loaded with carbs/starch. These foods further change our metabolism, “driving fat storage, weight gain, and obesity,” the study explains.
This is why Dr. Ludwig explains, “Reducing consumption of the rapidly digestible carbohydrates that flooded the food supply during the low-fat diet era lessens the underlying drive to store body fat. As a result, people may lose weight with less hunger and struggle.”
However, the researchers state that further research is needed to draw a conclusion whether this new model helps accelerate affective weight loss and prevent obesity
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