Two recent studies have yielded two tips that might help make your weight loss program work. They are not magic nor pharmaceutical. I confess that they confirm my own biases and experience, which does not make the findings any more valid.
The first study, which appears in the June 26, 2013 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN), is a survey of eleven studies on water consumption and weight reduction.
This review found that increased water consumption was associated with greater weight loss. The reviewers conjectured that either the water satisfied hunger cravings, or that the water substituted non-caloric fluid intake for equivalents that might contribute 400-500 calories per day.
The second study, published online June 3, 2013 in the International Journal of Obesity showed a decreased appetite for food following strenuous exercise. The findings from this study are more limited and guarded: it only studied 17 individuals, and ran counter to other studies that showed no relationship.
We need to hope that something will work to help us reverse the trend toward greater obesity. A Rand study by Sturm and Hattori, published online in September 2012 by the International Journal on Obesity showed the accelerated trend toward obesity in the United States beginning in 1987.
For example, there is a 13-fold increase of BMI > 50 shown by 1200 on the index above.
While the trend in the following table slowed slightly after 2005, there was still an increase of 70 percent increase in those with BMI > 40 so that 15.5 million Americans or 6.6 percent exceeded that BMI.
Something has to give–and it better not be more waistlines.
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