Porcini mushrooms are the mainstay of the new diet. The results of its application were announced at the Experimental Biology conference, which takes place in Boston..

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University conducted clinical trials for a year on a new diet that replaced red meat with mushrooms..

The experiment involved obese adults, their average age was 48.4 years.. 88% of them are women. Some of the participants did not change their diet, while another group ate a cup of porcini mushrooms every day, giving up red meat..

A comparative analysis showed that each participant in the second group lost, on average, 3.6% of their initial weight, their BMI decreased and their waist circumference decreased by 6.5 cm.

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