Team Up And Lose Weight

A new study suggests if you're serious about losing weight, don't just call your doctor before you begin, see a dietician, too. That's the take away advice from researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who asked if more really was better when it came to weight management advice.
In the study they took a team counseling approach, with doctors weighing in on fitness and dieticians weighing in on food, with a group of 80 people who wanted to lose weight. After an average of 30 months, over 80 percent of those involved in the study had dropped an average of 5.6% of their total body weight, and kept it off — far better than average.
Why did it work? Researchers speculate that the holistic approach, rather than focusing on diet or exercise alone, provided people with the entire picture of how food choices and activity levels work together to create sustainable weight loss.