At Ukmedix News we liked this diet because it is simple, sensible and healthy.

A diet called the Volumetrics Diet has been named to the best overall diet in America by a magazine called Consumer Reports. The magazine put together a panel of experts to decide which was the best diet based on a number of categories such as its nutritional content, convenience, the dropout rate, the quantity of weight shed and whether the participants continue to stay thin after one year.

The diet that was developed by Barbara Rolls who it is a professor of nutrition at Pennsylvania State University concentrates on making people feel full up when eating a lower calorie diet. The professor argues that some foods are very filling but are very low in calories and that you should concentrate on these foods so that you will not feel hungry all day but at the same time you will not be piling on the calories.

A lot of the eating plans were based around fruit, vegetables and salads which have very large quantity of water in them. Fruit and vegetables to have between 80 and 95 percent water and therefore they do not contain too many calories. Another thing that the experts liked about her diet plan was that it did not completely deprive people of the foods that they liked. It is becoming more and more apparent that diets that tell people to cut out completely one type of food staff have lower success rates because they encourage people to crave those foodstuffs which are cut out even more.

Professor Rolls said that portion control was extremely important too and that if you wanted to eat foods with a very high calorie density it was essential that you kept a portion to a small amount. If the food you are eating was of a low calorie density then you were encouraged to eat more of it.

At Ukmedix News we liked this diet because it is simple, sensible and healthy.