Weight Gain

Low-fat diet and exercise are keys to maintaining weight loss

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 5th, 2002

by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Three years after completing a very-low-calorie diet, women who maintained a high activity level and limited the amount of dietary fat regained the least amount of weight, according to researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

"Identifying strategies to maintain weight loss is crucial because of the negative health effects and increasing prevalence of obesity," commented Maureen S. Leser and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Leser and associates performed a 3-year follow-up of 27 women who had successfully lost weight on a very-low-calorie diet (VLCD). Weight...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-12-05)

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