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Crash-dieting more effective that gradual weight loss, study suggests

Oct 16th, 2014

However, our results show that achieving a weight loss target of 12.5 per cent is more likely, and drop-out is lower, if losing weight is done quickly."

The number of people who regained weight after three years was also the same in both groups, 71 per cent, suggesting that crash dieting is better than gradual weight loss in the short term and no worse in the long term.

The researchers suggest that losing weight quickly motivates dieters to stick with their programme because they see rapid results. Very low calorie crash diets also usually cut out carbohydrates, which usually fuels the body and therefore forces the body to burn fat more quickly.

Prof Susan Jebb, Professor of Diet and Population Health, University of Oxford, said: This is an important and well conducted study. It shows clearly that the common claim that more rapid initial weight loss is associated with more rapid regain is false.

This is important because it will enable professionals to recommend a broader range of treatment options so that people may be more likely to find the one that is best suited to their lifestyle.

Interestingly, the rapid weight loss group were more likely to achieve their target weight loss and more likely to stick with the programme. These factors are both important to successful weight control.

However some British experts suggested that losing weight over 36 weeks may be considered too fast to be considered very gradual weight loss and said the results may have been different if the researcher had allowed partipants longer.

This is not really a surprising result, since I would suggest that both conditions represent more rapid weight loss than desirable, said Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow

One must remember that weight gain in many who are obese has occurred over years and reversal may need to be relatively slow so that the bodys brain and gut homeostatic systems that regulate appetite have time to reset.

The present study suggests that too rapid a change in weight lead many to fail with weight loss in the longer term.

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