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...Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Alison E. Field, who served on the research team, said that the study stands apart from those previously conducted because none addressed a direct correlation between weight gain and dieting habits...
Previously, she said, studies on dieting were unable to determine whether weight-gain incurred was a result of overweight individuals who remain overweight despite their dieting or due to flaws in dieting itself...
...study tracked 8,203 girls and 6,769 boys, ages nine to 14, for three years, all of whom were children of nurses at Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Researchers focussed on dietary intake, physical activity, frequency of eating, weight and height...
...study postulates that frequent dieters may be more likely to gain weight because they may be more likely to partake in binge cycles. Also, the study contends, frequent dieters may suffer due to the increased metabolic efficiency which comes with dieting and means that dieters often require fewer calories to maintain weight over time...
Children were labelled “frequent dieters” if they reported dieting to control weight two to six times per week, while others were labelled “infrequent dieters...