To my surprise, Dr. Louis J Aronne did not refer to the LOOK AHEAD trial in his book The Change Your Biology Diet. Ironically, unlike Dr. Ludwig, he does not rely only on diet on exercise to treat obesity. He also has medications and surgery in his toolbox.
Here is the data every weight loss diet book should present.
It is the best that a 10 year diet and exercise program could produce.
However, the control group had 17.2% > 10% weight loss after 8 years.
Remember, half of the people in the National Weight Control Registry maintain their weight loss on their own.
This speaker still manages to put a positive spin on LOOK AHEAD
In April 2015 when the lecture in the video above was given, the
10 year LOOK AHEAD data
was available:
Quote from the NEJM paper:
"Weight loss was greater in the intervention group than the control group throughout
(8.6% vs. 0.7% at 1 year;
6.0% vs. 3.5% at study end)." (2.5% difference)
6.0% vs. 3.5% at study end)." (2.5% difference)
The False Hope of Diet, Exercise, Medication and Surgery below:
It's all about adaptive thermogenesis. The shrunken fat cells don't disappear. The low Leptin level eventually causes the body to regain weight. 30% of bariatric surgery patients regain all their weight after 10 years.
Even gastric bypass surgery has a waterfall results, with some patients gaining weight.
In Sponge syndrome with billions of shrunken fat cells causing weight regain after 6-9 months of weight loss because of Leptin deficiency.
This low level of Leptin cannot be treated with one maneuver. If you look at this flow sheet you will realize why.
Many different pathways are involved. Thus ultimately, the treatment of the reduced obese low level of Leptin will be
As the New Year begins most people are thinking about what they can do to improve their health in 2013. Most people spend their time focusing on losing weight. Now what I am going to suggest may not be new to you. Ingrown Fingernail
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