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Recent study revealed that low-fat diets will not be able to help in greater weight loss than high-fat diets that are known to have same amount of calories. Researchers used the low-fat diet as reference to study its effectiveness in weight loss as compared to other diets as well as not dieting at all. The scientists of the study did not find ant noticeable difference in a person's average weight loss when it was compared with regards to low-fat and high-fat diets. The only time reducing fat intake did make a lot of difference was when it was compared to not following any particular type of diet. The simple formula for losing weight is to burn more calories than the consume. If one can reduce the intake of calories by 500-1000 calories a day, a person would be able to lose between 1 and 2 pounds each week, said Centre of Disease Control and Prevention, reports Yahoo News.

Even though cutting the calorie intake is elemental to weight loss, the new study says that reducing the fat is not a very effective weight loss strategy, said Dr. Deirdre Tobias, lead author and instructor at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard medical School in Boston. Tobias said, "We don't eat calories per se - we eat foods," to lose weight, "the focus needs to shift away from specific nutrients - carbs and fats - to a discussion of healthy foods and eating patterns". To correctly analyze this hypothesis, researchers collected data from 53 studies with more than 68,000 participants. The researchers then paralleled the weight loss among people who followed low fat diets, high fat diets, low-carb diet and no specific diet. The study revealed that the long term success of the low-fat diet was determined by its intensity and not by the fat intake, as reported by ABC.