A new study suggests most overweight people who try to shed pounds are unsuccessful.
Scientists, led by Dr Marc Evans from University Hospital Cardiff, studied data on 1,850 obese adults with an average age of 53, of whom 79% said they had attempted weight loss in the last year. Of these, only about a quarter of obese people who tried to lose weight were able to keep off a substantial amount a year later.
The new survey, which is being shown to the European Congress on Obesity in the Netherlands, monitored information on adults from a range of countries - including France, Italy, Germany, the UK and Spain, the Daily Record reports.
