OBJECTIVE To compare the metabolic cardiovascular risk factors of obese patients after weight loss and 4-year weight loss maintenance afterwards against a matched control group of subjects with a stable body weight and without history of weight loss. METHOD 50 obese non-diabetic subjects in the study group who previously lost 10% or more of their weight and afterwards entered a 4-year weight ...

An increase in dietary protein intake has been shown to improve weight loss maintenance in the DIOGenes trial. Here, we analysed whether the source of the dietary proteins influenced changes in body weight, body composition, and cardiometabolic risk factors during the weight maintenance period while following an energy-restricted diet. 489 overweight or obese participants of the DIOGenes trial ...

OBJECTIVES Examine the association between components of restrained eating, cognitive performance and weight loss maintenance. METHODS 106 women, all members of a commercial slimming organisation for at least 6 months (mean±SD: 15.7±12.4 months), were studied who, having lost 10.1±9.7 kg of their initial weight, were hoping to sustain their weight loss during the 6 month study. Dietary restra...

OBJECTIVE Examine psychological and behavioral predictors of 3-year weight loss maintenance in women. METHODS Participants were 154 women in a 1-year randomized controlled trial on weight management with a 2-year follow-up. Signal detection analyses identified behavioral and psychological variables that best predicted 5% and 10% weight loss at 3 years. RESULTS Women with better body image w...

• To introduce health and fitness professionals to the role of low energy dense diets as a method of promoting healthy weight loss and eating behaviors and the prevention of weight regain. Currently, 68% of the U.S. population is estimated to be overweight or obese. Many of these individuals struggle at weight loss and the prevention of weight regain once weight has been lost. Learning to follo...

OBJECTIVE Our previous study, a 6-month randomised controlled trial, demonstrated that a group-based support promoted weight loss as compared to an education-only intervention. The purpose of this study was to examine weight loss maintenance for 2 years. METHODS Originally, 188 overweight Japanese adults, aged 40-65 years, were randomly assigned to 3 groups: control, education-only or group-b...

The spe2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae codes for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase, an enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway for the polyamines spermidine and spermine. We previously found that spe2 mutants completely lacking enzymic activity have no spermidine or spermine when grown in polyamine-free medium and require spermidine or spermine for meiotic sporulation and optimal growth. We now ...

The present study was conducted to investigate whether green tea may improve weight maintenance by preventing or limiting weight regain after weight loss of 5 to 10 % in overweight and moderately obese subjects. The study had a randomised, parallel, placebo-controlled design. A total of 104 overweight and moderately obese male and female subjects (age 18-60 years; BMI 25-35 kg/m(2)) participate...

In this paper, a single-product, single-machine system under Markovian deterioration of machine condition and demand uncertainty is studied.  The objective is to find the optimal intervals for inspection and preventive maintenance activities in a condition-based maintenance planning with discrete monitoring framework. At first, a stochastic dynamic programming model whose state variable is the ...

After weight loss, most individuals regain lost weight. Interventions to support the transition from successful loss to weight loss maintenance (WLM), regardless of the method of prior weight loss, are needed. The aims of this study were to (1) develop a face-to-face behavioural intervention session to support overweight and obese individuals who have recently lost a clinically significant amou...