Weight Loss News May 14th, 2008
Dairy Still Doesn’t Help with Weight Loss
Not a magazine goes by it seems without a dairy ad extolling milk’s (or another dairy product’s) role in weight loss - this of course despite the fact that Big Milk in the U.S. admitted that there was insufficient evidence to suggest or refute that milk has any weight-related benefits after being confronted by the FTC.
Well guess what? A new meta-analysis came to a different conclusion - it came to the conclusion that dairy products do not help with weight.
“Of 49 randomized trials assessing the effect of dairy products or calcium supplementation on body weight, 41 showed no effect, two demonstrated weight gain, one showed a lower rate of gain, and five showed weight loss. Four of 24 trials report differential fat loss. Consequently, the majority of the current evidence from clinical trials does not support the hypothesis that calcium or dairy consumption aids in weight or fat loss.”
Innovative Swiss Programme Offers New Hope For Long Term Weight-loss
Successful long-term weight loss for obese patients can be achieved without drugs using a low-cost approach that involves innovative intensive therapy followed by long term support, new research shows.
Swiss researchers found that more than half a group of morbidly obese patients maintained a 10 kg weight reduction and overall 70% of their patients succeeded in avoiding further weight gain after five years.
“This is a phenomenal success rate. Finding a way to help patients maintain their weight loss over a long period of time is difficult and these findings show that it is indeed possible for many people,” said the study’s leader, Dr. Séverine Buclin of the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET™
More than 500,000 people have lost weight eating cookies.
Now it’s your turn!
Q&A with Dr Thomas Stuttaford on tackling weight loss
Dr Thomas Stuttaford is away next week. His next online forum will be live after 1pm on May 28. The topic is: how to treat hay fever and summer colds? To ask the doctor your question on this topic and to read other recent topics he has answered click here
Q1: I am 59, live in France and have a sedentary occupation, pretty much desk-bound in my home office, have an underactive thyroid for which I am taking Levothyrox at 50mg per day. I have had a weight problem since the age of ten and so I grew up being very aware of the right things to eat and I am very strict with myself. I actually don’t like sweet foods and I stick to a healthy, balanced diet that includes fresh fruit and vegetables, low-fat meats and slow-burning carbohydrates, usually totalling an average of 1200 to 1500 calories per day.
Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET™
More than 500,000 people have lost weight eating cookies.
Now it’s your turn!
Weight Loss for All the World to See
A growing number of successful losers keep accountable by blogging about their weight loss efforts. In today’s Lean Plate Club column, meet Shauna Reid–also known as Dietgirl. (I was delighted to learn that the Lean Plate Club is one of the things that helped inspire Shauna’s efforts.) By the way, Shauna has lost half her body weight. The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl, a book detailing her odyssey, will soon be published in the U.S.
Also meet Gerry Pugliese. He writes the DiseaseProof blog for Dr. Joel Fuhrman. Gerry was lean until after college, when a difficult job interfered with his workouts and he turned to food to soothe his stress. Sound familiar? Gerry has lost about 60 pounds by eating smart with a diet that is mostly vegetable based and moving more, including discovering yoga.
GSK petition claims weight loss supplements have no science
A petition by drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) requesting that weight loss claims be treated as disease claims maintains that there is no credible science to back up weight loss ingredients used in dietary supplements.
GSK filed the petition at the end of last month, together with the American Dietetic Association, The Obesity Society and Shaping America’s Health, an association for weight management.
It maintains that obesity and overweight are significant risk factors for certain diseases, and so products promoting weight loss should be treated as drugs. However, the petitioners also claim that “there is no credible evidence whatsoever to support any type of qualified health claim for a weight loss supplement”.