Maintaining Food Diaries help in Shedding Fat A new study done
by the researchers from the 'Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center' claims that, women who want to lose weight should
maintain a food journal and avoids skipping meals with a
complete no to outside food, especially at lunch. The study done
by Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D was published in the Journal of
the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The researchers tracked
the dieting habits of 123 overweight or obese post menopausal
women who underwent a weight loss program for a year. Study
participants filled out a series of questionnaires to assess
dietary intake, eating-related weight-control strategies, self-
monitoring behaviours and meal patterns. They were also asked to
complete a 120-item food-frequency questionnaire to assess
dietary change from the beginning to the end of the study. They
noticed that at the end these women lost on average of 19 pounds
or about 11 percent of their initial weight. They diets included
about 1200 to 2000 calories a