Losing weight is one challenge, but keeping it off while maintaining a healthy diet can be even harder. New research suggests that a Mediterranean-inspired eating plan redesigned for the American South can help adults maintain weight loss for two years while improving the nutritional quality of their diets. The program is called Med-South and was […]

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In a two-year head-to-head trial, researchers found that two very different dietary approaches produced similar changes in body weight. A Mediterranean-style eating plan adapted to Southern food preferences helped participants lose about as much weight as WeightWatchers over two years, but it produced substantially greater improvements in reported diet quality. The comparison was part of [...]