Biology's response to dieting: the impetus for weight regain
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Biology's response to dieting: the impetus for weight regain.
Dieting is the most common approach to losing weight for the majority of obese and overweight individuals. Restricting intake leads to weight loss in the short term, but, by itself, dieting has a relatively poor success rate for long-term weight reduction. Most obese people eventually regain the weight they have worked so hard to lose. Weight regain has emerged as one of the most significant ob...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0363-6119,1522-1490
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00755.2010