Few Commercial Weight-Loss Programs Show Evidence of Effectiveness (VIDEO)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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The majority of Americans are overweight, making dieting a 2.5 billion dollar business in 2014. Do commercial weight loss programs actually work? A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine assesses the evidence.

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