A study by American College of Physicians say that a weight loss program that incorporates a maintenance intervention could help participants be more successful at keeping off pounds long term. Researchers found that primarily telephone-based intervention, focused on providing strategies for maintaining weight loss modestly, slowed the rate of participants' weight regain after weight loss. Despite the efficacy of behavioral weight loss programs, weight loss maintenance remains the holy grail of weight loss research. Teaching people weight maintenance skills has been shown to slow weight gain, but can be time and resource-intensive. The evidence suggests that incorporating a weight maintenance intervention into clinical or commercial weight loss programs could make them more effective over the long term.

Source: dna February 21, 2017 00:33 UTC