How Can Lose Weight Without Giving Calorie

How Americans can lose a lot of weight without giving up a single calorie

You've heard for years that the French and Japanese are much thinner than Americans because their diets are so much better than ours. A new mathematical model assesses why that is and how much thinner Americans could be if they changed their eating habits.

According to the study, conducted by agricultural economists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Americans could cut 2.57 points off their average Body Mass Index score by adopting a Greek (Mediterranean) diet; 2.13 points by eating like Finns; 1.96 by adopting a French diet and 1.48 by eating like the Japanese.

That's a lot of weight. The study listed the average BMI in the United States at 28.45 in 2009.  Finland was at 26.25, Greece at 25.75 and France at 25.35.  All of those qualify as overweight (25 to 29.9), though not obese, which is a BMI of 30 or more. Only the Japanese, at 22.7, had an average BMI in the healthy range.

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   Source:Washington post