Fat people can't get slim

London: If you are fat, you can't get slim, say experts.
Scientists have confirmed that the majority of overweight people who try to lose weight either by cutting calories or exercising will return to their former size.
They said fat people really can't keep the weight off.
Fewer than 10 percent of the 12 million Britons who go on a diet each year succeed in losing significant amounts of weight, and most of those who do put it all back on again within a year, the Daily Mail reported Monday.
The study of 25,000 people provides further evidence of the prevalence of 'yo-yo dieting' where slimmers get into a cycle of losing weight and regaining it.
The scientists, from the Medical Research Council's National Survey of Health and Development, followed 5,362 men and women from their birth in 1946 and 20,000 from birth in 1958, measuring their weight and blood pressure and assessing their lifestyles.
The researchers found both groups began gaining weight in the 1980s and have steadily increased in size ever since.
Rebecca Hardy, the council's programme leader on body size, said: "Once people become overweight, they continue relentlessly upwards. They hardly ever go back down."
"A few lose weight but very few get back to normal. The best policy is to prevent people becoming overweight," the Mail quoted Hardy as saying.


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