Low-calorie shakes and soup diets 'recommended for obese'

[Northerner]

Diet replacement programmes made up of low-calorie soups, shakes and regular counselling should be a recommended NHS treatment for obesity, a BMJ study says.

People on the diets lost three times more weight than those given standard dietary advice by their GP, University of Oxford researchers found.

And their risk of developing heart disease and type-2 diabetes reduced.

But experts said it would work only if eating habits were changed for good.

Prof Paul Aveyard, study author, GP and professor of behavioural medicine at the University of Oxford, said losing weight and keeping it off was hard.

"It's boring being on a normal diet and people struggle to stick to it fo

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[mikeyB]

It won’t work, because that kind of diet is so different to normal eating. Once the weight is off, it willl go back on again. It isn’t a lifestyle change.

 

[Hepato-pancreato]

It took a professor to tell us it was hard to lose weight and keep it off.
It has to be slow and develop into a lifestyle of healthy eating and exercise.
I used to do enforced nil by mouth for 7 days at a time when I started with pancreatitis. When you are ill diets like that are easy. When you are not ill it is not a diet it’s a test of will power.

 

[HOBIE]

Will power has a lot to do with it. Good luck to anyone who is trying 🙂