The group with the more imprecise information lost more weight than the group with more precise information.
She subsequently asked both groups of people to estimate the combined weight of a group of people pictured in a photograph.
The list of heavy-weight retailers launching group buying is growing and growing.
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While both participants lost about the same amount of weight, the group that received their training through Second Life actually made more changes to their habits.
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DietBet is going after weight management in the most social way possible: by bringing people together to lose weight as a group rather than the classic individualistic approach.
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These are the gold standard randomized control trials or intervention studies, in which a control group consuming soda is monitored for weight gain over time against a group which stops drinking soda (and all other dietary and lifestyle factors are controlled for).
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After six months, the non-diet group had lost an average of 1% of their weight, the calorie restriction group, 10.4%, those who were on a calorie restricted diet plus exercise, 10% and the very low-calorie diet, 13.9%.
The surprisingly weak results are pushing enterprise software and hardware stocks lower after hours, and could weight heavily on the group on Wednesday.
In one study, the average weight loss for a group taking a higher dose (32 mg) of naltrexone plus bupropion for about a year was 6.1% while for a lower dose (16 mg) it was 5%. (People taking a placebo had an average weight loss of 1.3%.) However, only half the participants who started the trial actually finished it.
While a small group of women will have a low body weight because of eating disorders, serious athletes make up the larger group at risk -- for example, competitive runners or gymnasts.
In contrasting these sites with Groupon, we can learn a thing or two from the group buying heavy-weight.
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The authors of the study look at changes in the weight and height of a large group of Americans aged over 50 between 1992 and 2004.
Claiming that the international restaurant group has used its global weight to become the official food of the tournament, top restaurants are complaining that they are being sidelined.
"Debenhams historically under punched its weight in that 15-34 age group, " admits Mr Woodhouse, arguing that new ranges from Jasper Conran and Matthew Williamson have begun to redress the balance.
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The additional weight of India's voice to this group, particularly if raised through Asian venues such as the Bali Democracy Forum, would undoubtedly move the center of gravity within Asia.
Over twelve weeks, researchers at the University of Indiana divided weight loss participants into two groups: a group that went to a traditional fitness center and a group that received their workout training and advice at a virtual gym through Second Life.
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Duncan 'Crazy Horse' Hutton returned to international recognition when he won the biggest and heaviest group of all, the Senior Open Weight.
Almost 7% of this age group reported self-induced vomiting to lose weight.
And it has cleverly designed those meetings to provide a safe place for group confessions about the challenges of being on a weight loss program.
The Borg group says the FDA understated lorcaserin's efficacy in weight loss and exaggerated safety issues.
He believes the best way for women in this age-group to keep their bones strong is to keep their body weight within normal levels and make sure they are exercising regularly.
There was little change in micro-organisms present in the mice who had had sham operations, even though the group on the low-calorie diet lost just as much weight as the mice who had had the bypass surgery.
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The unfaddish Weight Watchers preaches portion control and reinforces the sermon with Alcoholics Anonymous-style group sessions.
Kennedy "is a leader and an environmental activist and his opinion carries weight, " said Kate Hudson, the watershed program director at the environmental group Riverkeeper, which works with Kennedy on legal action to protect the environment.
Even the American Medical Association, the lobbying group for doctors that has been extremely wary of reforms, threw its weight behind the HAA in September.
Although the trial has several limitations, children in the low sugar group scored significantly lower across multiple measures of obesity, including BMI, weight, skinfold-thickness measurements, waist-to-height ratio, and fat mass.
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Moreover, when obese people went on a diet and lost up to a quarter of their body weight, their gut flora changed too, becoming more like those of the lean group.
Last year, she reported that her group had synthesised a nanofibre material capable of storing 65% of its own weight of hydrogen.
This gives more weight to a very well-supported theory that modern birds evolved from theropods, the group of small carnivorous dinosaurs to which Sinosauropteryx belonged.
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