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Feb 21

Why yo-yo dieting is still better than doing nothing for weight loss – Telegraph.co.uk

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We just finished a study in mice and what we found is that when mice who are obese keep on repeatedly losing and gaining that weight, they live longer than the mice that are allowed to stay obese.

So we think its probably not a bad idea to lose weight even if you are going to gain it back and redo it every few years.

Around two in three British adults are overweight or obese, which increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, liver disease and cancer.

Susan Jebb,Professor of Diet and Population Health at Oxford University said:I agree with the notion that losing weight is generally worthwhile, even if you put the weight back on again.

We have good evidence from long term follow up studies after controlled intervention studies in humans that there is a benefit.

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