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Improvements in specific health behaviors—specifically increased fruit/vegetable consumption, increased physical activity days, increased breakfast consumption, and decreased stress—are independently associated with clinically significant weight loss (≥5%).
To maximize your chances of losing weight, focus on four key behaviors: eat more fruits and vegetables, increase your physical activity days, eat breakfast regularly, and actively manage your stress levels. This study found that improvements in all four areas were linked to successful weight loss.
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Health behavior changes such as eating more fruits and vegetables, increasing physical activity, and reducing stress were all predictive of clinically significant weight loss.
Why this rating
Observational data, self-reported, low follow-up.
Source
Outcomes and Utilization of a Low Intensity Workplace Weight Loss Program
Kelly Carpenter et al. · Journal of Obesity · 2014
DOI 10.1155/2014/414987
cohort · n=2917Cited 17×
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