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Low-fat diet and exercise are keys to maintaining weight loss.
2002 DEC 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- 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 loss averaged 20.7 kg (19.2%) on the original diet (A low-fat intake and greater activity level are associated with lower weight regain 3 years after completing a very-low-calorie diet. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 2002;102(9):1252-1256).
At the 3-year follow-up, the women had gained an average of 13.9 kg. The investigators found a positive correlation between fat intake and weight regain, with women in the lowest tertile of fat intake (
No significant association was found between total energy intake and the amount of weight regained.
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