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Avoid big changes because they are difficult to maintain. Count your
carbs, and try to keep them under 100 g or less.
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Scientific American
February 2011

How to Fix the Obesity Crisis by David H. Freedman
p. 40 - 47

FROM BIOLOGY TO BRAIN p.44

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL WAY to date to lose at least modest amounts of
weight and keep it off with diet and exercise employs programs that
focus on changing behavior. The behavioral approach, tested over
decades, involves making many small, sustainable adjustments in eating
and exercise habits that are prompted and encouraged by the people and
the rest of the environment around us.

.. . . To combat obesity, behavioral analysts examine related
environmental influences: Which external factors prompt people to
overeat or to eat junk food, and which tend to encourage healthful
eating? In what situations are the behaviors and comments of others
affecting unhealthful eating? What seems to effectively reward eating
healthfully over the long term? What reinforces being active?
Behavior-focused studies of obesity and diets as early as the 1960s
recognized some basic conditions that seemed correlated with a greater
chance of losing weight and keeping it off: rigorously measuring and
recording calories, exercise and weight; making modest, gradual changes
rather than severe ones; eating balanced diets that go easy on fats and
sugar rather than dropping major food groups; setting clear, modest
goals; focusing on lifelong habits rather than short-term diets; and
especially attending groups where dieters could receive encouragement to
stick with their efforts and praise for having done so.

Studies back the behavioral approach to weight loss. A 2003 review
commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services found that "counseling and behavioral interventions showed
small to moderate degrees of weight loss sustained over at least one
year"‹a year being an eon in the world of weight loss. An analysis of
eight popular weight-loss programs published in 2005 in the Annals of
Medicine found Weight Watchers (at that time in its pre-2010
points-overhaul incarnation) to be the only effective program, enabling
a 3 percent maintained body-weight loss for the two years of the study.
Meanwhile a 2005 JAMA study found that Weight Watchers, along with the
Zone diet (which, like Weight Watchers, recommends a balanced diet of
protein, carbohydrates and fat), achieved the highest percentage (65
percent) of one-year diet adherence of several popular diets, noting
that "adherence level rather than diet type was the key determinant of
clinical benefits." A 2010 study in the Journal of Pediatrics found that
after one year children receiving behavioral therapy maintained a body
mass index that was 1.9 to 3.3 lower than
children who did not. (BMI is a numerical height-weight relation in
which 18.5 is held to be borderline underweight and 25 borderline
overweight.) The Pediatrics report noted that "more limited evidence
sugges ts that these improvements can be maintained over the 12 months
after the end of treatments." A 2010 study in Obesity found that
continuing members of Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), a national,
nonprofit behaviorally focused weight-loss organization, maintained a
weight loss of 5 to 7 percent of their body weight for the three years
of the investigation. The U.K.'s Medical Research Council last year
declared that its own long-term study had shown that programs based on
behavioral principles are more likely to help people take and keep the
weight off than other approaches. (The study was funded by Weight
Watchers, but without its participation.)
--
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
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