Summary
A recent study into dieting methods has shown that the new diets on the block aren't as effective at long-term weight loss as the good, old-fashioned Weight Watchers method of watching calories and exercising daily. With the low-carb craze dwindling, the tried-and-true methods of simply watching what you eat and counting points is still the best way to lose weight and keep it off.
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- Weight Watchers has seen some lean times, so to speak.
- The company's decades-old regimen of daily exercise, point-counting and monthly meetings hasn't been able to compete very well with the all-you-can-eat, low-carb diet craze of the past few years, and profits suffered.
- But just in time for New Year's resolutions, the Woodbury-based weight-control company may get a boost from a new study that endorses its low-fad diet.
- The study of a selection of weight loss programs, scheduled to be published next week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found only Weight Watchers had strong documentation that it worked.
- The report was scheduled for release early next week but was published early by various news services.
- The study, along with rising company profits this year and a general waning in the low-carb craze, could mean more Americans are willing to work for weight loss, experts said.
- "I don't know if Weight Watchers will grow dramatically, but it has proven through the years to work," said Bob Goldin, executive vice president of Technomic Inc., a Chicago-based food industry research company.
- Weight Watchers is more of a lifestyle program than other weight loss plans, he said, which could come back in style as "common sense is now tending to prevail in dieting."
- Instead of relying on the point system it depended on for more than 40 years, the company in August 2003 launched a response to low-carb plans that eliminated point counting, said spokeswoman Jennifer Mitchell.
- Fewer consumers following low-carb diets could spell trouble for companies such as Ronkonkoma-based Atkins Nutritionals, experts said.
- "Our sales are still up," said Colette Heimowitz, Atkins vice president of education.
- "Most health experts have recognized that the low-carb craze is on its way out," said Melinda Johnson, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
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