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Article: Some Good News About Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance.
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- HealthFacts
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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The topic for the day was America's obesity problem. Surprisingly, there was a fair amount of good news about weight loss generated by the recent obesity media briefing, held last month in New York City and sponsored by the American Medical Association. For example, simply increasing calcium intake (2,000 mg daily) will keep the pounds off some people. This was an accidental finding from a study designed for a purpose other than weight loss. It was confirmed by another study designed to see if this finding could be replicated.
Obesity researchers usually study treatment failures to determine what went wrong, but one doctor who spoke at the media briefing ...