WEIGHT WATCHER VS GYM RESULTS !

I am constantly amazed by the weight loss programs who have a failure rate of over 90% (based over 3 years) .. yet people still go back for more ! What other business can have a product that doesnt work and yet the customer blames themselves and buys it over and over again.

Lets not even get started with what that does to a persons self esteem ... here is an article recently published in Science Daily which goes part way to explaining why diet alone DOES NOT WORK !!

In the first study of its kind, using sophisticated methods to measure body composition, the nationally known commercial weight loss program, Weight Watchers, was compared to gym Participants who attended Weight Watchers for 12 weeks lost an average of 5 percent of their body weight, or about nine pounds. However, Steve Ball, assistant professor of exercise physiology in the MU College of Human Environmental Sciences, found that a large percentage of the lost weight was lean tissue and not fat.

“Participants’ body fat percentage did not improve at all because they lost a much higher percentage than expected of lean tissue,” said Ball, MU Extension state fitness specialist. “It is advantageous to keep lean tissue because it is correlated with higher metabolism. Losing lean tissue often slows metabolism. What your body is made of is more important than what you weigh.”membership programs to find out which method wins in the game of good health.

Computer Tomography (CT scans) were used to investigate changes in abdominal fat, which is more predictive of cardiovascular disease. Although the fitness center group lost very little weight, they probably improved their health because they lost a significant amount of intraabdominal fat (fat around vital organs). These results imply that exercise may have positive influence on the metabolic syndrome despite the number on the scale