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Weight Loss / Healthy Options
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Weight loss interventions: Do they work?
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Dieting and restricting food causes short-term weight loss rarely lasting more than six months before it plateaus, followed by inexorable regain. Whether the diet is high or low protein, high or low fat, high or low carbohydrate, very-low-calorie liquid diets (800 or less), moderately low calorie, behavior modification, or one of dozens of fad diets – rice, fruit, steak and grapefruit – makes no difference at all. <MORE> |
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Why weight loss doesn’t work: The setpoint
Weight loss does not succeed long term because, whether we want to admit it or not (and most weight loss specialists don’t) – it seems that we each do have a setpoint or settling point. Our bodies vigorously defend this weight and seem to make adjustments to restore it at the setpoint after either weight loss or gain. <MORE> |
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Weight cycling risks
Weight cycling risks come with the repeated loss and regain of body weight. Also called weight fluctuation, weight variability or yo-yo dieting, this is a critical issue for public health. <MORE>
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What does work: Healthy options
| The good news is: What works best in dealing with weight issues is also the healthiest option. It’s a healthy living approach that allows excess weight to come off gradually and naturally, as a by-product of good habits. Least disruptive of normal life, it’s a diet-free approach that avoids setting off alarm bells and activating the body’s defense system.<MORE> |
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Preventing excess weight gain and eating disorders
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Obesity prevention efforts are going forward in schools, health care agencies and state legislatures. However, there are growing concerns that, despite the best of intentions, these efforts may contribute to unintended negative consequences. It is critical that they do no harm. Above all, it is important that efforts to prevent obesity take into account the high prevalence of eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, nutrient deficiencies, unhealthy weight loss efforts, binge eating and size prejudice. <MORE> |
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