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Ten Popular Diets Which Work and Which Are Hype? | The …

100+ pounds lost on The Slow-Carb Diet.

If you want to lose fat in 2014, how about we do it together? I need to work off some Danish butter cookies.

Last year, the Lift team helped me test The Slow-Carb Diet with 3,500 readers. The result: 84% of people lost weight and the average weight loss was 8.6 pounds over four weeks. Many people lost more than 20 pounds. This didnt surprise me, given the case studies of people whove lost 100+ pounds.

Working alongside UC Berkeley, Lift is now launching the largest study of popular diets ever performed. You can choose from 10 different diets (Paleo, vegetarian, gluten-free, etc.), and the study includes control groups and a randomized trial. The Slow-Carb Diet is one option.

I will be participating, cheering you onand advising. Heres what you should do today:

For more background on this study, I asked Tony Stubblebine, CEO of Lift, to tell the story. Here it is! Its a quick read, and I suggest it

A year ago, we ran 3,500 readers of Tims blog through a four-week study of the Slow-Carb Diet, tracking their progress throughLift.

The results were amazing:84% of people who stuck to the diet lost weight and the average weight loss was 8.6 pounds over four weeks.Those stats are crazy, right?Some people lose 100+ lbs going Slow-Carb, but I never dreamed that peoples success rate would be so consistent.

After seeing the results, I wondered whether people fail to adopt healthy habits due to lack of independently testing. Getting people to change isnt just about giving good advice; its also about giving them confidence in the advice. Our study showed that Slow-Carb definitely works. But what about the rest of the diet world?

As soon as we published the Slow-Carb Diet results, a young researcher at UC Berkeley reached out. The proposal: that we turn the Slow-Carb Diet study into a full blown scientific research project, or, as he coined it, The Manhattan Project of diet research.

Tim is unique, in that he had the vision and the guts to put his diet to the test. Very few (probably zero) other diet authors have tried this. What if we could replicate this on an epic scale with other approaches? Real objective data?

Unfortunately, academia doesnt move fast enough to keep up with popular diets. By the time a study comes out, weve all moved on to the next thing.The research that we did on The 4-Hour Body was pioneering in its speed. Tim and I conceived the study in October, ran it in November, and published the results in December.

Taking that rapid, crowd-sourced approach to diet experimentation would be like dropping a nuclear bomb on the existing diet industry. This sort of research could completely change our notion of what worksand for whom.

Our UC Berkeley advisors had just one concern: we had to get more rigorous about our experimental design.

This second study, which were calling The Quantified Diet Project, includes a comparison of ten different approaches to healthy diet, a control group, and another group going through a randomized trial.

With your help, we can start getting scientifically-valid measurements for all popular diet advice. What works and what doesnt? The results might surprise you.

When you join, youll be presented with ten approaches to healthy diet, along with two control groups. All of these approaches have been vetted for healthiness, but youll have a chance to opt out of any that dont fit your lifestyle.

And, of course, if you are a strong believer in The Slow-Carb Diet, you can go straight to that option (Slow-Carb obviously works).

This is a chance to lose weight, increase your health, boost your energy, and make a real contribution to science. Join the Quantified Diet Studytoday! It could change your life and change how scientific studies are performed. Win-win.

Heres to an incredible 2014, starting now,

Tony Stubblebine

Advice, motivation, and tracking for more than 100,000 goals.

Posted on: January 5, 2014.

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