Initially, positive results from the behaviour modification approach proved as short lived as other methods of weight control. Although these techniques have value in themselves as part of a wider complex of behavioural interventions, in practice of course, not all behaviours are so simple. In a review of the research on behavioural interventions for weight [...]

In the traditional teaching of energy balance, it has been assumed that, in humans, there is a relatively free conversion of non-fat calories to fat calories for storage. This is no longer so; now fat nutrients are thought to be more fattening than nutrients gained from either carbohydrate or protein. The reasons that fat was [...]

Little things mean a lot, especially when it comes to weight loss. Just ask Barbara Rodriguez. The 23-year-old Miami resident had never been seriously overweight, “just a bit chunky,” she says. But when she got engaged in 1997, she decided that she wanted to look just right for her wedding. That meant slimming down—the right [...]