The latest weight loss study to be published on two separate fronts advocates a structured diet and regular exercise as the best way of losing the excess weight.

weight loss structured dietThe study was led by a group of nutrition experts out of Moores UCSD Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego. It found that programs to treat overweight and obese women that promote diet and lifestyle changes can bring about success loss of weight and continued weight maintenance. On Saturday October 9, the study was presented at The Obesity Society conference in San Diego. It was then published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Interestingly for anyone with a cynical way of thinking, it has to be pointed out the study was sponsored by none other than weight loss diet company, Jenny Craig. This alone must lead some to suspect that there may be a smidgen of self-promotion underlying the study as the participants were given Jenny Craig prepackaged meals to eat during their structured diets.

Nevertheless, the study proved what most people who are still able to use their brains already know, which is that eating a sensible diet and exercising will keep them from gaining weight in the first place and help them to lose it if they get overweight. Hardly ground breaking news, but an interesting aside if you get tired of reading about the potential wonder drugs that are promised sometime in the not too distant future and magic bullets that will save the nation from sinking under the weight of all the obese people living on it.

Oh, and we’re still waiting on a related study from one of the multi-national hamburger restaurant chains to tell us all that eating hamburgers and fries makes us fat. Like that’s going to happen…

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