The percentages are stacked towards overweight individuals who attempt to shed extra pounds by calorie-controlled or restricted diets, a brand new UK research has revealed.
Simply-released College Hospital of Cardiff analysis mentioned nearly 80 per cent of the 1850 individuals classed as overweight had tried to shed kilos over the previous 12 months, however lower than one in three succeeded.
The research used weight lack of greater than 5 per cent of physique mass because the benchmark for achievement.
Of those that had tried to shed kilos, 72 per cent used calorie-controlled or restricted diets, however only one in 5 utilizing these strategies have been profitable.
After calorie-controlled or restrictive diets, train packages have been the following commonest widespread technique for weight reduction, with 22 per cent of individuals.
Barely a couple of in 10 tried pharmaceutical remedies, whereas others sought assist from cognitive behavioural remedy, digital well being apps and weight reduction providers.
"Most are unsuccessful," Dr Marc Evans mentioned, with the research introduced at this week's European Congress on Weight problems, within the Netherlands.
"This underscores the necessity for elevated assist and options for weight administration."
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The research, which is but to be peer-reviewed, discovered train and calorie-controlled or restricted diets have been "the least helpful" to attain clinically significant weight reduction.
"Solely round 20 per cent of respondents (obtain) weight reduction utilizing these approaches," the research mentioned.
Whereas weight reduction surgical procedure is at present thought-about the simplest strategy to vital weight discount, only a few respondents had undergone the process.
Highlighting the well being threat of being chubby, the research discovered greater than 25 per cent of individuals dwelling with weight problems had three or extra obesity-related issues (ORCs).
The commonest ORCs have been hypertension, dyslipidaemia - a blood situation which will increase the possibility of clogged arteries or coronary heart assaults - and sort 2 diabetes.
Overweight individuals with three or extra ORCs are twice as probably as these with none to be hospitalised prior to now 12 months, the research mentioned.
Contributors in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK self-reported their weight reduction regimes.
Most individuals who tried to shed extra pounds tried just one technique, the research mentioned.