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Some Good News About Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance.
The topic for the day was America's obesity problem. Surprisingly, there was a fair amount of good news about weight loss generated by the recent obesity media briefing, held last month in New York City and sponsored by the American Medical Association. For example, simply increasing calcium intake (2,000 mg daily) will keep the pounds off some people. This was an accidental finding from a study designed for a purpose other than weight loss. It was confirmed by another study designed to see if this finding could be replicated.
Obesity researchers usually study treatment failures to determine what went wrong, but one doctor who spoke at the media briefing described a national registry of 3,000 people who successfully managed to not only lose weight but also keep it off. They are being studied to determine the secret to their success.
But first, the reporters had to hear the litany of bad news about obesity and its adverse consequences. Doctors who addressed the media briefing were especially worried about the large increase in the…
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