Should you count calories or count macros? Cut fat or cut carbs?

Eat double the

recommended amount of protein? Triple? Maybe just hook up to a steady IV of protein
shake?

Really, it shouldn’t be so difficult to figure out which eating regimen will set fire to fat
while maintaining muscle. Fortunately, the International Society of Sports Nutrition just
released its position paper, which combs through all existing scientific studies to report
how every diet will affect your body composition. Here, we’ve pulled five of the most six-
pack-friendly diets and streamlined how they’re great, as well as why they might be right
(or wrong) for you—according to the hard science.