Current evidence on dietary approaches to improve weight loss success: Professor Clare Collins FDAA
Achieving long term weight loss is demanding and also relatively uncommon.
For dietitians who have clients trying to lose weight we want to know we are providing the best advice available. There are a myriad of approaches we could take but where do we start? Clare was able to give us an overview of the current evidence on dietary approaches to improve weight loss success.
She described some of the most recent research findings:
- Individualized consultations with a dietitian achieved a significantly greater impact on weight control
- HAES®‐based interventions were effective in improving some cardiovascular outcomes, e.g. total and LDL cholesterol. Further research needed for other outcomes such as triglycerides, fasting glucose levels and blood pressure.
- Very low carbohydrate diet (20 to ≤40g/day with NO energy restriction) is NOT more effective than energy restriction alone over 1- 5 years
- Higher fat/lower carbohydrate diet (30-75%F, 4-45% CHO) is equally effective as higher CHO/lower fat diet (20-25%F, 50 -65% CHO) for 6-16 weeks when protein & energy are constant
- Reduction in energy intake using food meal replacements (FMRs) achieves greater weight loss at 1-12 months compared to general diet advice, when monitored by health professionals
Clare also provided us with practical tips we can use with our clients.
Clare is a Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics in the School of Health Sciences at Newcastle university and a Fellow of the DAA. Her achievements for the dietetics profession and as a dietitian and are extraordinary and include:
- Being awarded over $21 million dollars in research grants
- Publishing over 300 manuscripts
- Supervising 28 Research Higher Degree candidates to completion
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, Researcher of the Year, 2017
- Developing technology-based tools for dietary assessment and nutrition education
- Conducting thousands of media interviews for radio and print and writing hundreds of nutrition articles for the public including 70 for The Conversation
- Co-authoring six books on nutrition
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