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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 56, 203S-208S, Copyright © 1992 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Relationship of dieting history to resting metabolic rate, body composition, eating behavior, and subsequent weight loss

TA Wadden, S Bartlett, KA Letizia, GD Foster, AJ Stunkard and A Conill
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

This study examined the relationship of dieting history to resting metabolic rate, body composition, and subsequent weight loss in 50 obese women. A preliminary study showed that the women were able to report with satisfactory reliability the number of diets in which they had engaged (mean = 4.9 +/- 0.5), as well as the total weight loss resulting from these diets (mean = 55.9 +/- 6.0 kg). We found no evidence that weight cycling, as measured by either of these variables, was associated at baseline with a reduced resting metabolic rate or an increased percentage of body fat. Nor did we find that weight cycling was associated with smaller weight losses in a prospective trial in which subjects were treated by very-low-calorie diet and behavior therapy. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed, as are the methodological problems encountered in conducting research on this topic.


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