Obese people who want to lose weight are advised to join a weight loss program for maximum results. This is according to a recent study. Participants of the research who lost at least 5 percent of body weight in the past year said that they ate less fat, exercised more and consumed prescription weight loss drugs.
According to the researchers, eating diet foods, products, using popular diets, and taking over-the-counter pills are not effective ways to lose weight. About a third of people in the United States are obese. Among them, 50 to 70 percent said that they are trying to lose weight.
Dr. Jacinda Nicklas of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and her colleagues collected data on 4,000 obese adults during the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey made from 2001 to 2006. The survey collected health, demographic, and health behavior data from adults in the United States.
The study showed that 63 percent of the respondents tried to lose weight in the last year. They were shown list of weight loss strategies and were asked which ones they tried in the past year. Almost 500 of the participants said that they lost 10 percent or more of their body weight in the past year. Around 1,000 said they lost 5 percent.
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