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Article: Dear diary: it turns out that keeping a food diary can help you double your weight loss and improve your health.
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- Vibrant Life
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- January 1, 2009
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Forget those furtive lines written in lock-and-key diaries by teenagers in love.
The habit of journaling now goes beyond mapping out feelings, frustrations, and fancies to help overweight people get results on the scale.
A study conducted by the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, reveals that weight-loss wannabes can double pounds lost by logging their daily food intake.
"The more food records people kept, the more weight they lost," said study lead author Jack Hollis, Ph.D.
On average these participants lost 13 pounds when they kept a food diary and committed to moderate ...