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Article: Maintaining Long-Term Weight Loss IS Possible: New Study Contrasts Government's Findings.
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- April 8, 2004
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NEW YORK, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- An important new study shows that once weight is lost, it can be kept off for the long term. These results are significantly different when contrasted with a previous National Institutes of Health report(1) on a variety of weight loss methods suggesting that weight loss is unlikely to be significantly maintained for one year, and is virtually impossible to maintain for five years.
The new study examined people who had completed the weight loss and maintenance phases of the Weight Watchers program by hitting their weight goal and maintaining it for six-weeks. This new study was carried out by WAC Survey & Strategic Consulting ...