The weighing game.If you want to keep off lost weight, step on the scale every day. Researchers randomly assigned as·sign tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs 1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. 2. roughly 300 people who had lost an average of 42 pounds in the last year into three groups. They mailed the control group quarterly newsletters about eating right and exercising. But they taught the two other (intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. ) groups techniques to prevent weight gain (eat breakfast, exercise for an hour a day, weigh yourself daily). One of the intervention groups had face-to-face (jargon, chat) face-to-face - (F2F, IRL) Used to describe personal interaction in real life as opposed to via some digital or electronic communications medium. group meetings, while members of the other got their advice via an online program (once a week for the first month and once a month for the rest of the study). After 1 1/2 years, 46 percent of those in the face-to-face intervention group had regained at least five pounds, compared to 55 percent of those in the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the intervention group and 72 percent of those in the control group. When the researchers looked just at the two intervention groups, only 26 percent of those who weighed themselves daily regained at least five pounds, versus 58 percent of those who didn't hit the scales every day. What to do: If you're trying not to regain the weight you've lost, look for a program (like Weight Watchers) that will help you keep tabs on tab 1 n. 1. A projection, flap, or short strip attached to an object to facilitate opening, handling, or identification. 2. A small, usually decorative flap or tongue on a garment. 3. your weight. And put your feet on the scale every day. N Engl. J. Med 355: 1563, 2006. |
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