A Study published in the American Journal of Public Health has revealed that Obese people will never be able to attain normal weight or maintain weight loss.
Researchers reviewed electronic health records of a total of 278,982 people living in the U.K. over a nine-year period.
The findings reveal that obese people, those with a body mass index between 30 and 35, have low chances of attaining even a five per cent weight loss in a given year, with just one in 10 women and one in 12 men making such a reduction.
According to authors of the study, “The probability of attaining normal weight or maintaining weight loss is low. Obesity treatment frameworks grounded in community-based weight management programs may be ineffective.”
Professor Martin Gulliford, a study author from King’s College London also said said, “Current strategies to tackle obesity, which mainly focus on cutting calories and boosting physical activity, are failing to help the majority of obese patients to shed weight and maintain that weight loss.”