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Does poor sleep sabotage weight loss? What the trials show
Short sleep makes weight loss harder. What the sleep-restriction trials and meta-analyses found about appetite, fat loss and maintaining weight.
Weight loss, ranked by the strength of the evidence
Every diet works. Almost none of them keep working. The interesting research is about the second part, and it gets a fraction of the attention.
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In head-to-head trials, named diets converge on similar average results at twelve months. The variable that predicts your outcome is not which diet you pick but whether you keep doing it — which is why this site spends more space on maintenance than on macronutrients.
Diets
Which diet is best?
Low-carb, low-fat, keto and Mediterranean compared in meta-analysis. The differences are smaller than the arguments.
Maintenance
Why the weight comes back
Determinants of maintenance, and what distinguishes the minority who succeed.
Food environment
Ultra-processed food
A strong and consistent association, an umbrella review, and a real argument about causality.
Nutrition
How much protein?
Satiety, lean mass, bone, and the protein leverage hypothesis.
Behaviour
Do behavioural programmes work?
Self-monitoring, digital delivery and what the meta-analyses find.
Drugs
What happens when the drugs stop
Weight regain after discontinuing weight-management medication, meta-analysed.
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