Break Your Diet To Lose Weight
 

http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/t...6&q=60&o=f&l=fA small new study found that breaking up extended periods of dieting with more normal eating. People in the study who took two weeks at a time off of their diet lost more weight than peers who stuck to it for the same amount of time. In addition, they kept more of the weight off for longer. Research has long shown that most diets are plagued by the reality that when they end, the people on them almost always gain most or all of the weight back. The new study offers hope for a possible way to avoid this pitfall. Best of all, it essentially involves giving yourself a break. For the study, published this month in Nature's International Journal of Obesity, 51 obese men between 25 and 54 were split into two groups. The first group followed a strict diet that involved slashing their calorie intake by a third of their needs (something called the "energy restriction" phase) for just over 3 and a half months.

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