Weight Watchers Twice as Effective as Standard Diets
Overweight patients who were referred on to the Weigh Watchers program by their doctors have been seen to lose twice as much weight as others undertaking standard weight loss regimes, according to new international research. The fully random control data revealed compelling data that supported Weight Watchers as a doubly effective solution to obesity, when compared to standard commercial weight loss programs offered by GPs.
Those who took part in the Weight Watchers plan stayed faithful to the diet in much larger numbers, lost more weight, shed more fat mass and say the biggest reductions in waist size, according to the authors of the study.
Patients in the Weight Watchers group stayed on the diet in larger numbers, lost more fat mass, lost more weight, and had greater reductions of their waist measurements compared to those on standard care, the authors wrote.
Experts have unanimously agreed that obesity is set to surpass smoking as the world’s most preventable cause of a catalogue of chronic diseases and complaints.
A previous article in the same publication last month reported that obesity is a serious problem for both sexes in countries where the nation income is of a comparatively high level, though is spreading fast to low income areas across the board.
As it stands, around 1.5 billion adults the world over are overweight, with about 500 million registered as clinically obese. Up to 170 million children are also known to be obese globally.
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