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  • Study: Weight-loss success depends on eating more protein, fiber while limiting calories

    Aug 19, 2024 8:45 am by Sharita ForrestResearch
    nutrition professor Manabu Nakamura, left. His co-authors on a recent study about the program included, from left, medical student Nouf Alfouzan; Catherine Applegate, a postdoctoral research associate at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology; and John Erdman, professor emeritus of food science and human nutrition. Credit: Fred Zwicky

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    • nutrition professor Manabu Nakamura, left. His co-authors on a recent study about the program included, from left, medical student Nouf Alfouzan; Catherine Applegate, a postdoctoral research associate at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology; and John Erdman, professor emeritus of food science and human nutrition. Credit: Fred Zwicky

    Flexibility and personalization were key in optimizing dieters’ weight-loss success on the Individualized Diet Improvement Program, created by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign food scientists.