Researchers at Oxford University restricted the dietary intake of hundreds of patients to 810 calories a day for two months under the Cambridge Weight Plan and found that, nearly one year on, they had lost three times more weight than those on other diets and, crucially, they had kept the weight off.
The findings appear to fly in the face of previous suggestions that crash dieting leads to a yo-yo effect whereby people lose large amounts of weight but then pile it back on again.
"In the past we have worried that a short period of rapid weight loss may lead to rapid weight regain," says Professor Susan Jebb, a diet and population health expert at the university's Nuffield Department of Primary Care health Sciences.
"But this study shows that nine months after the intensive weight loss phase, people have lost more than three times as much weight as people following a conventional weight...
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