studies on which weight-loss advice works best across all who read it?
- From: bennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 25 May 2006 16:18:05 -0700
Note carefully the question. I am *not* asking the same question that
everybody else asks :)
Are there studies on what forms of weight-loss advice work best,
averaged across all the people who read it -- taking into account the
fact that some people who read it won't want to follow it if it's too
time-consuming?
I am not asking what weight-loss advice works best averaged across all
people who *follow* it. It's easy to get a high score on that metric
by giving "advice" like "Work out for an hour every day and don't eat
anything that tastes better than prison food."
What I mean is: Suppose you are given a random sample of 1,000 people
looking to lose weight. You can tell them anything you want, but you
can't make them do anything. Your score is determined by the total
amount of (healthy) weight loss achieved by the participants at the
end. Are there studies on what advice scores best under those
conditions?
(The advice can depend on the person, e.g. "If you are a man weighing
200 to 220 pounds, do this; if you are a woman weighing 150 to 200
pounds, do this." But the "success score" is still determined by
getting the average result from the random sample of 1,000 people.)
It seems like this would be THE question to focus on, for any person or
organization interested in doing something about the obesity epidemic.
Because whatever weight loss advice you come up with, the results will
be determined not by how it works for people who follow it, but by how
it works for everybody.
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