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Published online 4 January 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050103-3
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Easy diets work best
Evidence confirms that maintaining a regime is more important than its details.
If you want to lose weight, stop worrying about which diet is most effective and simply pick whatever programme you find easiest to follow. That's the advice from nutrition experts in the United States, who have found that dieting success seems to depend on how closely people stick to a diet, rather than which one they choose.
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