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HealthPartners receives $1.75 million grant from NIH to study weight loss maintenance
"Keep It Off" is one of the first studies to focus solely on maintaining weight loss
June 12, 2007
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. HealthPartners Research Foundation received a $1.75 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study ways to help people maintain weight loss over the long-term. The study focuses on helping adults who have lost 10 percent of their body weight in the past year, maintain their new, healthier weight.
"Though many people lose weight quite successfully, research shows that people typically regain most of the weight lost within two years" said Nancy Sherwood, PhD, the study's principal investigator. "This study seeks to identify the most successful methods to help people maintain the weight they have lost."
Keep It Off will be testing two different programs for helping adults who have lost weight to keep it off over the long term. The self-directed program provides participants with a course book on maintaining weight loss and two phone sessions with a personal coach. The guided program features more frequent phone sessions with a personal coach and weekly reporting of weight to monitor and reverse small weight gain, in addition to the course book.
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