Oregon Health & Science University
Diet alone will not likely lead to significant weight loss
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 26th, 2010
Newly-published research by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University demonstrates that simply reducing caloric intake is not enough to promote significant weight loss. This appears to be due to a natural compensatory mechanism that reduces a person's physical activity in response to a reduction in calories. The research is published in the April edition of the American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
"In the midst of America's obesity epidemic, physicians frequently advise their patients to reduce the number of calories they are consuming on a daily basis. This research shows that simply dieting will not likely cause...
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