Do low-carbohydrate diets increase energy expenditure?

Kevin D Hall; Juen Guo; John R Speakman

doi:10.1038/s41366-019-0456-3

Do low-carbohydrate diets increase energy expenditure?

Kevin D Hall^* (Corresponding Author)
, Juen Guo
, John R Speakman

^*Corresponding author for this work

National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA, NIH National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

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Abstract

Proponents of low-carbohydrate diets have claimed that such diets result in a substantial increase in total energy expenditure (TEE) amounting to 400–600 kcal/day [1] thereby providing patients with a “high calorie way to stay thin forever” [2]. However, a recent systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled feeding studies found no meaningful TEE effects comparing isocaloric diets with equivalent amounts of protein but varying in their proportion of carbohydrate to fat [3]. Nevertheless, it is possible that these past studies may have failed to create the appropriate conditions to reveal the hypothesized increase in TEE during a low-carbohydrate diet [4].

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2350-2354
Number of pages	5
Journal	International Journal of Obesity
Volume	43
Early online date	23 Sept 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-019-0456-3
Publication status	Published - Dec 2019

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