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Weight cycling is a common problem for chronic dieters.
People lose weight by dieting, which often involves restricting food intake, and find that after they go off the diet, they end up weighing more than they did before they started. This cycle can be very frustrating for people desperately trying to lose weight. A recent article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reports that in the modern environment, restriction of food intake may indeed prove to be counter productive in the quest for weight loss. The food intake, weight and metabolic rate of eight volunteers was measured away from the pressures of the outside world in a 'mini-world' called Biosphere 2, a structure made of glass and steel, designed to mimic the ecology of earth. The volunteers found difficulties in growing their own food, which meant that energy intake was restricted, however they were still expending a lot of energy.