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Dietary resistant starch (5.9% energy) independently attenuates weight regain and preserves lean mass during relapse to obesity on a high-fat diet.
To help prevent weight regain after weight loss, incorporate foods high in resistant starch (like cooled potatoes, rice, or green bananas) into your daily diet. This specific type of starch appears to help reduce the biological drive to overeat and preserve muscle mass during periods where you might be eating a higher-fat diet.
Both RS and exercise independently attenuated weight regain by reducing the energy gap between the drive to eat and suppressed energy requirements. Exercise attenuated the deposition of lean mass during relapse, whereas its combination with RS sustained lean mass accrual as body weight returned.
Why this rating
Well-controlled rodent model with clear statistical significance (p < 0.05) for the primary outcome, though animal models have translational limits.
Source
Resistant starch and exercise independently attenuate weight regain on a high fat diet in a rat model of obesity
Janine Higgins et al. · Nutrition & Metabolism · 2011
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