GRADUAL WEIGHT LOSS AND RAPID WEIGHT LOSS ARE EQUALLY EFFECTIVE

According to the new Australian study, the rapid weight loss is equally effective as losing the weight slowly.




Advertisements“Across the world, guidelines recommend gradual weight loss for the treatment of obesity, reflecting the widely held belief that fast weight loss is more quickly regained,” said study lead author Katrina Purcell, a dietitian at the University of Melbourne in Australia, in a journal news release.But the new study finds that if weight losing is done quickly, reducing 12.5 percent of weight is more likely and drop-chance becomes lower. The current weight loss guidelines support gradual weight loss as it is believed that it helps people to maintain their weight under control.To conduct this study, researchers divided 200 obese participants into two groups. The gradual weight loss group received 500 fewer calories every day for 36-week while the rapid weight loss group got very-low-calorie diet of 450 to 800 calories per day for the period of 12-week.Among the participants, 50 percent individuals of gradual weight loss group and 81 percent of rapid weight-loss group achieved more than 12.5 percent decline in their body weight. For three years after that, participants were held on maintenance diet.By the end of third year, participants of both groups got back 71 percent of their lost weight.This study concludes that gradual weight loss and rapid weight loss almost produce same end results.The study “indicates that for weight loss, a slow and steady approach does not win the race, and the myth that rapid weight loss is associated with rapid weight regain is no more true than Aesop’s fable,” wrote Corby Martin and Kishore Gadde, from Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., in an accompanying commentary.The study details have been published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on October 15