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Does dieting make you fat? A twin study.

International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Mar 2012

Pietiläinen K H, Saarni S E, Kaprio J, Rissanen A

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the paradoxical weight gain associated with dieting is better related to genetic propensity to weight gain than to the weight loss episodes themselves. SUBJECTS: Subjects included 4129 individual twins from the population-based FinnTwin16 study (90% of twins born in Finland 1975-1979). Weight and height were obtained from longitudinal surveys at 16, 17, 18 and 25 years, and...

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PMID: 21829159
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2011.160

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