They say Ronald McDonald is the cousin of Joe Camel : comments.
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Do you have a useful source for your stats on weight loss there? I'm particularly interested in the reduction of metabolic rate - given there exist societies where food is eaten in boom and bust cycles and people lose weight until the next harvest when they put it on again, I'd have thought the body would be more resilient than that. I'd also guess that the reason for the weight gain/loss would factor in.
I completely agree with your a) and b) and the importance of c). For d), I would guess it all depends on what is defined as 'dieting' and 'success'.
(no subject)
The studies on long-term dieting success define it as "maintained weight loss for two years", mainly because it has been extremely difficult to find sufficient people who have maintained it for longer. Solovay has some interesting comments on how difficult it was even to recruit people who fitted the definition above, and why even the 10% figure may be optimistic.