Randomised controlled trial of four commercial weight loss programmes in the UK: initial findings from the BBC “diet trials”

Truby, Helen, Baic, Sue, deLooy, Anne, Fox, Kenneth R, Livingstone, M Barbara E, Logan, Catherine M, Macdonald, Ian A, Morgan, Linda M +2 more·2006·BMJ

DOI 10.1136/bmj.38833.411204.80

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