BACKGROUND The best available evidence demonstrates that conventional weight management has a high long-term failure rate. The ethical implications of continued reliance on an energy deficit approach to weight management are under-explored. METHODS A narrative literature review of journal articles in The Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics from 2004 to 2008. RESULTS Although the energy...

Maintaining weight loss long-term is a difficult challenge for most people. Weight often temporary and results in progressive regain. Previous research has focused on extension of methods behavioral changes through the maintenance period without specific attention to skills phase. Further, emotional health largely gone untested how positive psychology influences successful loss. We employed qua...

The prevalence of obesity and its associated health problems have increased sharply in the past 2 decades. New revisions to Medicare policy will allow funding for obesity treatments of proven efficacy. The authors review studies of the long-term outcomes of calorie-restricting diets to assess whether dieting is an effective treatment for obesity. These studies show that one third to two thirds ...

An experiment was conducted in order to evaluate the effects of gestational undernutrition of rabbit does on growth, carcass composition and meat quality of the offsprings. Thirty primiparous non lactating rabbit does were artificially inseminated and randomly divided in three treatment groups: Control (C; fed to 100% of maintenance requirements throughout gestation, n = 10), early undernourish...

BACKGROUND Guidelines recommend gradual weight loss for the treatment of obesity, indicative of a widely held opinion that weight lost rapidly is more quickly regained. We aimed to investigate the effect of the rate of weight loss on the rate of regain in obese people. METHODS For this two phase, randomised, non-masked, dietary intervention trial in a Melbourne metropolitan hospital, we enrol...