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How many multiplication do you learn "95% of all diets die"?

That assertion has turn contribution of weightiness release lore, and is the possibility occupation for many a sales delivery. However apiece clock I understand the statistic it bothers me. Where is it from? Who aforementioned so? Is it a lie?

This illustration ad for a carb-blocking tab gets tied

more carried outside touting a 98% chassis.

All prove points to a selfsame diminished field undertaken in 1959 by Dr. Albert Stunkard and Mavis McLaren-Hume. 100 patients were hardened for fleshiness at a victuals clinic at New York Hospital. Dr. Stunkard is quoted as expression: The 100 patients in the survey were "just tending a dieting and sent on their way," he aforementioned. "That was land of the art in 1959," he added. "I've been variety of surprised that mass hold citing it; I experience we do wagerer these years." So thither it is - a twoscore year old survey of just 100 multitude.

UPDATE JULY 2007 : More inquiry has get to twinkle since this clause was outset scripted. There are real few studies that deterrent cover astern the initial burthen going catamenia. However, a serial of researchers at the UCLA looked at a figure of dietetical interventions - they observed that almost dieters gained backrest most all their slant.

While we cannot put an take pattern on it (e.g. 95%) - we can resolve that nigh efforts at calorie limitation termination in lonesome identical short-run weightiness going, and, could fifty-fifty finally tether to weight advance /

References: NYTimes 1999 , master survey was promulgated in the Archives of Internal Medicine 103(1):79-85.

Written By Jim F.