Want to Lose Weight? Let Your Doctor Pick Your Diet

The researchers think the reason people may lose less weight when they choose their own diet plan is that they may choose a plan that includes more of the foods they like to eat, which, in turn, makes it difficult for them to scale back on these foods, Yancy said.
However, he noted that, although the people in the study who chose their diet plan did not lose as much weight as those who had the decision made for them, this does not mean that doctors should not present their patients with different diet options."It is just that [patients] might not be the right people to choose among those options," Yancy said.
Future research should examine how to match people with the diets that would work best for them, by considering such factors as their metabolic profiles or genetics, instead of their food preferences, the researchers said.

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