How to lose weight after menopause

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By Maggie Fox, NBC News Aug. 28, 2012

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Herman sounds like thousands of women across the country who are slowly tipping over the point from being normal weight to overweight, or from being overweight to obese. A study published on Tuesday sheds a little light on what may work and why some approaches that help women shed a few pounds in the short term aren’t helping them keep the weight off long-term.

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As expected, more of the women who got specific diet and nutrition counseling lost weight. But Gibbs and colleagues wanted to know what worked for any of the women who managed to lose weight, regardless of which group they were in.

Early on, some of the more obvious diet strategies worked -- eating less fried food, staying away from restaurants, avoiding sweets and eating more fish. But these approaches didn’t work for the women in the long term, Gibbs reported in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

“What we found at four years is that the women who changed their eating behaviors to eat more fruits and vegetables, who ate less desserts, less sugar-sweetened beverages and less meats and cheeses were more likely to have greater weight loss or less weight gain long term,” says Gibbs, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Physical Activity.

“But on the other hand, something like eating more fruits and vegetables did not predict weight change at six months but was one of the most important predictors for long-term weight change.”

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