Get mfp to sign up to the National Weight Control Registry
Oishii
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Unlike many of you, I am not very cool, nor very persuasive, so I have come here to ask for your advice/help in getting mfp members to actually DO something.
I was reading the findings of the National Weight Control Registry ( http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/sum03/registry.html) and was hit by the fact that their results reflect their sample far more than their results tell us anything about weight control.
This is how they describe their sample:
'Most subjects in the National Weight Control Registry are white women; men comprise only 20% of participants, and few minorities are represented. Most subjects are aged 44 to 49 years.'
And their findings are that:
'To summarize, almost all patients who successfully maintained long-term weight loss used both diet and physical activity to lose weight. These people also shared strategies for maintaining the weight loss: eating a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet; eating breakfast almost every day; weighing themselves frequently; and engaging in 60 to 90 minutes per day of moderate-intensity physical activity. Although we do not know for certain, we think that this behavior probably led to their success in keeping weight off. These characteristics could be effectively used as components of programs for helping overweight and obese people to achieve and maintain weight loss.'
Low fat high carb is necessary for weight maintenance? Breakfast? To me, this is more likely to illustrate a correlation between the population used and their habits than between the habits and weight maintenance.
Also, their maintainers claimed to maintain on 1300-1500kcal a day! While the study mentions how unreliable these figures are, I still think these figures should be balanced out somehow.
To sign up, all you need is to have kept off a 30lb or more loss for a year or more (and be in America, I assume). This would apply to a lot of mfp members who could potentially skew the research away from its current narrow sample.
So, what would be the best way to get mfp members on board? What kind of title would work? Is there a better way? Asking mfp to blog about it? Anything else?
I just feel that such research would be so much better with a wider sample, which mfp could help to provide.
I was reading the findings of the National Weight Control Registry ( http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/sum03/registry.html) and was hit by the fact that their results reflect their sample far more than their results tell us anything about weight control.
This is how they describe their sample:
'Most subjects in the National Weight Control Registry are white women; men comprise only 20% of participants, and few minorities are represented. Most subjects are aged 44 to 49 years.'
And their findings are that:
'To summarize, almost all patients who successfully maintained long-term weight loss used both diet and physical activity to lose weight. These people also shared strategies for maintaining the weight loss: eating a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet; eating breakfast almost every day; weighing themselves frequently; and engaging in 60 to 90 minutes per day of moderate-intensity physical activity. Although we do not know for certain, we think that this behavior probably led to their success in keeping weight off. These characteristics could be effectively used as components of programs for helping overweight and obese people to achieve and maintain weight loss.'
Low fat high carb is necessary for weight maintenance? Breakfast? To me, this is more likely to illustrate a correlation between the population used and their habits than between the habits and weight maintenance.
Also, their maintainers claimed to maintain on 1300-1500kcal a day! While the study mentions how unreliable these figures are, I still think these figures should be balanced out somehow.
To sign up, all you need is to have kept off a 30lb or more loss for a year or more (and be in America, I assume). This would apply to a lot of mfp members who could potentially skew the research away from its current narrow sample.
So, what would be the best way to get mfp members on board? What kind of title would work? Is there a better way? Asking mfp to blog about it? Anything else?
I just feel that such research would be so much better with a wider sample, which mfp could help to provide.
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Interesting topic. Tagging so it shows up on my feed.0
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Interesting. I think a title something like "Lost more than 30 lbs and kept it off?" would be good. Then I think you would want to keep it really short but put some info in so they would feel confident that it wasn't something quacky, perhaps that it's affiliated with Brown Medical School or anything else that makes it sound legit. Also that names are kept confidential.
I put in my info and hit Submit, but nothing happened so I'm not sure if it worked. Maybe I'll get an email eventually
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