The Smarter Science of Slim is a book written by Jonathan Bailor. This post has notes featuring the results of some of the studies mentioned in the book. The book’s website is located at http://thesmarterscienceofslim.com/
• A study found that women who ate 350,400 more calories than another group of women over eight years gained only 0.88 pounds more over the course of the study.
• A study of obese and thin people on short-term zero-calorie diets found that the thin subjects burned nearly 50% more body fat than the obese subjects.
• A series of studies found that animals who had fat surgically added to their bodies burned the extra body fat until their body fat returned to its set-point.
• Experiments where students ate up to five times more than normal found that they could not increase their weight by more than 12% on average.
• A study found that weight gain varied by nearly three times between sets of twins due to different set-points.
• A study found that obese rats dropped excess weight automatically when the quality of their diet improved.
• A study found that rats who ate 50% less for ten days weighed more and had a higher percentage of body fat than rats who continued eating normally.
• A study of rats found that those who dramatically reduced their caloric intake burned body fat more than 500% less efficiently than rats who continued eating normally.
• A study found that people who weighed 220 pounds who went on a starvation diet developed a slower metabolism and ended up needing 5% fewer calories per day than non-starving 138-pound people.
• A study found that people who went on a 1,600 calorie per day diet had their metabolism slow by 40%, their strength fell by 28%, their endurance fell by 79%, and their rates of depression rose by 36%.
• A study found that rats that went on yo-yo diets stored food as body fat 400% more efficiently than rats who constantly ate a fattening diet.
• An analysis of 67,272 people found that the less people ate, the more body fat they had.
• A study found that as soon as rats stopped eating less, they gained weight twenty times faster than normal until they returned to at least their original weight.
• A study found that physical inactivity is not necessarily associated with the development of obesity, but rather obesity may lead to physical inactivity.
• Data from more than 68,000 adults found that manual laborers have higher rates of obesity than inactive office workers.
• An experiment showed that people who ate more high quality food ate 300 more calories per day and burned more body fat than people who continued eating their regular diet.
• An experiment showed that people who ate more high quality food involving 9,500 more calories lost 200% more weight.
• An experiment found that people who ate more high quality food ate a total of 25,000 more calories without gaining any additional weight.
• An experiment found that people who ate more high quality food ate a total of 65,000 more calories and lost 141% more weight.
• A study of 51,529 people found that eating more correlated with less body fat and eating higher-quality food correlated with less body fat.
• An experiment involving obese children found that those who changed the quality of their food lost eleven pounds, whereas those who reduced the quantity of their food gained five pounds.
• A study showed that people who ate high-satiety protein and natural fat while avoiding low-satiety starches and sweet founds unconsciously avoided 1,000 low-quality calories per day while feeling as full as other people.
• An experiment showed that people who increased the percentage of protein in their diet from 15% to 30% unconsciously avoided 441 excess calories per day without feeling hungry.
• An experiment showed that people who ate a high-protein meal unconsciously ate 26% less at their next meal without feeling hungry.
• Research on modern hunter-gatherer tribes shows that they have much lower rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cardiovascular disease.
• A review of 21 studies involving 347,747 people found that there is no significant evidence for a link between saturated fat and an increased risk of heart disease or cardiovascular disease.
• An experiment involving 12,866 men with high cholesterol found that those who followed government diet guidelines for seven years had a 7.1% increase in heart disease deaths.
• An experiment involving 48,835 women found that a low fat diet did not reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease or stroke.
• A study involving twenty-seven countries found little to no association between the average cholesterol level and heart disease mortality.
• A study of 28,098 people found that individuals receiving more than 30% of their total daily energy from fat did not have increased mortality.
• Data from studies involving 300,000 people found that total fat intake did not increase the risk of heart disease.
• An analysis of 26 randomized and controlled trials found that people who ate less fat and/or took cholesterol-lowering drugs had a higher death rate.
• A study found that people who consumed 60% of their calories in the form of carbohydrate had increased VLDL (bad) cholesterol and a decrease in HDL (good) cholesterol.
• People consume 10,475% more high-fructose corn syrup now than they did in 1970.
• A study found that middle-aged Australian hunter-gatherers gained weight while eating a modern diet but lost 16.5 pounds in seven weeks of eating a hunter-gatherer diet.
• Research indicates that a low animal protein intake is associated with an increased risk of stroke.
• A review of 157 studies found no correlation between meat consumption and cardiovascular disease.
• A study found that people who did high-quality brief cardiovascular exercise spent less time exercising and lost more abdominal fat.
• An experiment found that people who only did arm training gained 9% in arm strength, while people who did both leg and arm training gained 37% in arm strength.
