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Weighing yourself every day keeps your weight stable
Study
This system meant that students had to weigh themselves immediately after getting up in the morning. They then mailed their weight to the researchers. Once the researchers had received weights for 7 days, they could plot a linear progression of the subjects' weight development, and then mailed the results every day to the students. So from day 7 the students knew whether their weight was increasing, decreasing or staying constant.
The researchers tested their Tissue Monitoring System on a dozen female freshmen students for a period of 12 weeks [Experimentals]. Another dozen first-years didn't have to weigh themselves [Controls].
Results
A year later the researchers repeated the experiment with new freshmen, but went a step further. Not only did they measure whether the subjects in the experimental group were putting on or losing weight, they also told them by how much they needed to reduce their daily calorie intake if they wanted to stay the same weight.
This system worked even better, as the figures below show. The students in the experimental group actually lost weight.
The researchers think that systems like their Tissue Monitoring System can help to reverse the obesity epidemic.
Conclusion
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