Weight reduction methods of college women.

Weight reduction attitudes and practices were obtained from a sample of 400 female students. Forty-eight percent reported using a weight loss program since admission to college. The programs most often selected included hypocaloric diets and exercise. Although the majority of subjects rated hypocaloric diets and exercise as good methods for weight reduction and indicated that they would recommend them to others, these methods supported the slowest rate of weight loss. Evidently, the side effects and costs of the other programs offset the rapid weight loss. Other methods, in descending order of use, included the Cambridge diet, drugs, weight loss clinics, and low-carbohydrate diets. Improved appearance was most often given as the reason for losing weight.

• Publication year

  1985

• Venue

  Journal of the American Dietetic Association

• Publication date

  1985-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/s0002-8223(21)03641-5PMID 3980900
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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