Study: Pick Any Diet, Get Same Results

By: RNS

Updated: July 3, 2007

Pick a diet, any diet -- the weight-loss will be the same.

That's according to a new study that shows people will lose about six-percent of their weight on any diet.

That's about ten to 15 pounds.

It also finds that most people will put that weight back on in five years.

Weight-loss drugs are just as ineffective.

However, even a six-percent weight loss can have health benefits.

The study appears in the medical journal "Annals of Internal Medicine."

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