The Ukmedix News attitude to weight loss is quite simply to eat healthily...

A study has confirmed what we have been thinking about for some time at Ukmedix News which is quite simply that diets don’t work. It seems crazy to think that if you put yourself on a restricted calorie or low fat eating plan that you will in the long term not lose weight but the statistics show that over 60% of all people who diet end up gaining the weight that they had originally lost and putting back on even more. The new analysis that was done in the United States shows that within four or five years people who diet and lose significant amounts of weight eventually get back to that original heavy weight and that they are more likely than not to get even fatter.

The weight loss experts and psychologists at the University of California based in Los Angeles saw that in the short term dieting was very effective and many people were able to lose between 5 and 10 percent of their body weight in a variety of different dieting ways. They noted that in the first six months of a dieting plan big weight loss gains could be made. The researchers called this initial weight loss the honeymoon period and then said that the weight starts to pile on again. They noted that in only a very tiny proportion of dieters was the weight loss sustained for over five years.

You may think that this research is pretty depressing reading and may make some people out there feel there is no point in dieting at all, however at Ukmedix News we have learnt from studying literally hundreds of different research projects that the most important factor of losing weight is eating healthily and that people who lose weight with sensible varied and healthy diets are the ones who are much more likely to keep weight off. People who use fad diets that are full of gimmicks are the ones who end up putting on all the weight back on again.

The research is seen primarily not as a weight loss project but more of a psychological study into the attitudes of people and what they eat. The research is to be published in the medical journal called the American Psychologist and involved the analysis of over 30 other long term research projects on weight loss and diet. The researchers said that they felt that these people who put on all this weight again would have been better off having not dieted at all in the first place as their bodies would not have had to deal with the fluctuating weight loss and weight gain. They also commented on the fact that the individuals who kept their weight off tended to exercise frequently.

The Ukmedix News attitude to weight loss is quite simply to eat healthily, carefully and in moderation and to make sure that you get a good dose of physical activity a number of times a week.  We like to keep it simple for people who are worried about their weight.