Diet alone will not likely lead to significant weight loss

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 06:00 in Health & Medicine

Newly-published research by scientists at Oregon Health and Science University demonstrates that simply reducing caloric intake is not enough to promote significant weight loss. This appears to be due to a natural compensatory mechanism that reduces a person's physical activity in response to a reduction in calories. The research is published in the April edition of the American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology...

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