A New Way to Lose Weight

According to an Australian doctor, eating a bit of the food one craves for, may be the best bet to lose weight.

Dr George Blair-West, in the country for Diabetes New Zealand's annual conference, believes that he understands why diets don't work - and that the solution to effective weight control is about getting around the psychological attachment to food.

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He says traditional diets that make people stay away from foods they love are ineffective and research shows that ultimately people rebel against this deprivation and end up over- eating.

"Traditional deprivation diets have a five-year success rate of around 5-20 percent. We're better at treating most cancers than we are at treating obesity using this traditional approach," Sunday Star Times quoted him, as saying.

Blair-West's 2008 book, Weight Loss for Food Lovers, says the trick is to regularly eat controlled quantities of the foods people desire.

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"If I was working with someone, I would work out what they have an attachment to and then prescribe them that two to four times a week," says Blair-West.

"When you allow people to have the food they crave, their cravings disappear," he added.

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The method works, he says, because it recognises the emotional importance of food.

Blair-West says another factor that causes over- eating is many people not savouring food.

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