From the New York Times — For people who are trying to lose weight, it does not matter if they are counting carbohydrates, protein or fat. All that matters is that they are counting something. This is what researchers from Boston have found and have reported in a recently published study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In summary, more than 800 overweight adults were assigned to one of four diets that reduced calories through different combinations of fat, carbohydrates and protein. Each plan cut about 750 calories from a participant’s normal diet, but no one ate fewer than 1,200 calories a day.

After two years, every diet group had lost — and regained — about the same amount of weight regardless of what diet had been assigned.

The New York Times article on the study can be read here. Or, if you’re more interested in reading the research paper itself it can be accessed here.