|  |  | October 19, 2009  Dr. Barbara Rolls who holds the Guthrie Chair of Nutrition, Penn State's College of Health and Human Development conducted two studies looking at weight and the amount of energy consumed in a person's diet. Dr. Rolls findings in the studies reported, "Decreasing the energy density of your diet by choosing more low-energy-dense foods, such as fruits and vegetables, can be a successful strategy to lose weight without counting calories or fat grams."
Dr. Jennny Ledikwe, a postdoctoral fellow in nutritional epidemiology, who assisted Dr. Rolls, examined the eating patterns of 7,500 Americans, using the US Department of Agriculture Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals. After calculating the caloric intake of the candidates she placed them into low, medium and high energy dietary patterns.
Ledikwe found that those participants who ate a low energy diet ate a greater weight of food than those in the high energy dense group but they consumed fewer calories and weighed less.
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