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"Generally speaking, weight management guidance often boils down to eating less and exercising more. In practice, people are encouraged to lose weight, whereas the results of our extensive population study indicate that losing weight is not an effective weight management method in the long run," says Kärkkäinen."

"To effectively prevent weight gain, understanding the factors underlying weight management that precedes the gain, or primary weight management, is of utmost importance," notes Kärkkäinen.

Exercise and healthy eating habits are considered the cornerstones of weight management. However, according to this long-term population study, even more essential to successful weight management is refraining from dieting and observing regular eating habits, in both women and men.

Now if they only knew how to tell people what constitutes "regular eating habits" that actually lead to good health.

My other observation of articles like this is the use of the term "study" as if it carries some degree of credibility. However, studies can be poorly constructed and when they include answering questionnaires, are notoriously inaccurate. It truly doesn't matter how many participants were involved, as the inaccuracies simply magnify the distortions with more participants. Yet, if it's a "study," then we must pay attention.