If you think you don't need to cut calories just because you have a few extra pounds or are healthy then take note! Even in healthy adults cutting around 300 calories a day significantly improved already good levels of cholesterol blood pressure blood sugar and other markers suggests a study. The study was published in the journal 'The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology'. The trial part of an ongoing project with the National Institutes of Health continues to build on the researchers' hypothesis that it's not just weight loss that leads to these improvements but some more complex metabolic change triggered