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Article: Support, Exercise, Long-Term Programs Best for Weight Loss.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- March 15, 2000
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HONOLULU -- Most attempts to lose weight fail.
Even in clinical programs, most patients who succeed in losing 10% of their body weight gain back two-thirds of that weight in a year and all of it in 5 years, Linda M. Delahanty, a research dietitian at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said at a meeting sponsored by the American Diabetes Association.
But research also consistently shows that some people successfully lose weight and keep it off. Here are some of the factors associated with successful weight loss:
* Long-Term Treatment. The longer a person is in a weight-loss program, the more weight they lose. Forty weeks to a year is not ...