Successful Weight Loss & Weight Control
This study examined the prevalence, distribution
and correlates of successful weight loss and successful weight maintenance
over three years in a community-based sample of 854 subjects aged 20-45
at baseline. More than half (53.7 percent) of the participants in the
study gained weight within the first twelve months, only one in four (24.5
percent) successfully avoided weight gain over three years, and less than
one in twenty (4.6 percent) lost and maintained weight successfully. The
findings underscore the importance of current public health efforts to
prevent weight gain, and suggest that without much greater efforts to
promote and support weight control the prevalence of obesity will continue
to rise.
Source: International Journal of Obesity
(2000)
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