New Lifestyle Diet Metabolic Advantage for Optimum Weight Loss Research/Clinical Studies

	The components of the New Lifestyle Diet have been clinically proven in numerous third party studies, conducted by major universities and hospitals. The results of these studies show that participants following the New Lifestyle Program will experience optimum weight loss results and an increased metabolism. These results are achieved through a combination of the products, program, and support; all scientifically proven. Additionally, the New Lifestyle Diet provides the ability for its participants to address and overcome their own eating issues, giving the individual the essential knowledge to complete their lifestyle change. As a result, the New Lifestyle Diet brings together nutritional science, a comprehensive plan, and learned behaviors, allowing individuals to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life.

Within this document, the following components of the New Lifestyle Diet are addressed, along with summaries of the associated third party studies:

Increased Weight Loss Results
Long Term Health Benefits
Program Support and Tools for Weight Loss Success
Benefits of Whey Protein for Maintaining Lean Muscle Mass and Increased Metabolism

Increased Weight Loss Results Compared to Conventional Diets

New Lifestyle Diet is based upon the use of great tasting and convenient meal replacements. Meal replacements are scientifically shown to increase weight loss results when compared to conventional diets. This is because meal replacements are convenient, take all the guesswork out of eating correctly, and make consistency in eating the right amounts easier day in and day out. With New Lifestyle Diet products you have advanced nutritional products that make following the program easy.

Third Party Study: Weight Management Using Meal Replacements

OBJECTIVE: Although used by millions of overweight and obese consumers, there has not been a systematic assessment on the safety and effectiveness of a meal replacement strategy for weight management. The aim of this study was to review, by use of a meta- and pooling analysis, the existing literature on the safety and effectiveness of a meal replacement plan using one or two vitamin/mineral fortified meal replacements as well as regular foods for long-term weight management.

DESIGN: A plan was defined as a program that prescribes a low calorie diet whereby meals are replaced by commercially available, energy-reduced product(s) that are vitamin and mineral fortified, and includes at least one meal of regular foods. Randomized, controlled interventions of at least 3 months duration, with subjects 18 y of age or older and a BMI-Z 25 kg/m2, were evaluated. Studies with self-reported weight and height were excluded. Searches in Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Clinical Trials identified 30 potential studies for analysis. Of these, six met all of the inclusion criteria and used liquid meal replacement products (such as New Lifestyle Diet Shakes) with the associated plan. Overweight and obese subjects were randomized to the meal replacement plan or a conventional reduced calorie diet (RCD) plan. The prescribed calorie intake was the same for both groups. Authors of the six publications were contacted and asked to supply primary data for analysis. Primary data from the six studies were used for both meta- and pooling analyses.

RESULTS: Subjects prescribed either plans lost significant amounts of weight at both the 3-month and 1-year evaluation time points. All methods of analysis indicated a significantly greater weight loss in subjects receiving the meal replacement plan compared to the RCD group. Depending on the analysis and follow-up duration, the meal replacement group lost 7–8% body weight and the RCD group lost 3–7% body weight. Risk factors of disease associated with excess weight improved with weight loss in both groups at the two time points. The degree of improvement was also dependent on baseline risk factor levels. The dropout rate for meal replacement group and RCD groups was equivalent at 3 months and significantly less in the meal replacement group at 1 year.

CONCLUSION: This first systematic evaluation of randomized controlled trials utilizing meal replacement plans, such as New Lifestyle Diet, for weight management suggests that these types of interventions can safely and effectively produce significant sustainable weight loss and improve weight-related risk factors of disease.

International Journal of Obesity 27, 537–549.

Improved Weight Loss and Long Term Health Benefits

The New Lifestyle Diet is based upon the use of convenient meal replacement shakes, bars, and puddings that are scientifically proven to provide superior short term and long-term weight loss. The convenient meal replacements make it easy to eat right and make the right choice consistently to ensure optimal success. Additionally the use of convenient meals, such as those provided by New Lifestyle Diet, are associated with lower risk of certain types of disease markers. Together this means that the New Lifestyle Diet is an effective way to lose weight quickly and keep it off forever, along with increasing overall health in the long term.

Third Party Study: Value of structured meals for weight management: risk factors and long-term weight maintenance.

OBJECTIVE: To examine changes in biomarkers of disease risk after 51 months of reduced energy intake and sustained weight loss.

DESIGN: This study was conducted as a prospective, randomized, two-arm, parallel intervention for 12 weeks followed by a prospective, single-arm, 4-year trial in a university-based hospital clinic. One hundred patients were randomly assigned to one of two dietary interventions for 3 months. Group A was prescribed an energy-restricted diet of 1200 to 1500 kcal/d, and group B was prescribed an isocaloric diet, whereby two of three meals were replaced with nutrient-fortified liquid meal replacements (such as New Lifestyle Diet). After 3 months, the patients were prescribed the same caloric reduction and used once-daily replacements for the succeeding 4 years. Body weight and blood pressure were checked monthly. Biomarkers of disease risk were measured after 3, 9, 15, 27, and 51 months.

RESULTS: During the 3-month weight-loss period, body weight was reduced by 1.5 +/- 0.4% and 7.8 +/- 0.5% (mean +/- SEM) for groups A and B, respectively. After 4 years, 75% of the patients were evaluated. Total mean weight loss was 3.3 +/- 0.8% and 8.4 +/- 0.8% for groups A and B, respectively. Both groups of patients showed significant improvement in glucose, insulin, triacylglycerol, and systolic blood pressure. Cholesterol concentrations were reduced in patients with high initial cholesterol levels and maintenance of a 7% weight loss.

DISCUSSION: Providing a structured meal plan with liquid meal replacements is an effective treatment for obese subjects. Long-term maintenance of weight loss with meal replacements improves biomarkers of disease risk.

Obesity Research Nov; 9 Supplement 4:284S-289S.

Program Support and Tools for Weight Loss Success

Research shows that the most successful weight loss plans include high tech, yet easily used support tools such as online programs and support groups along with handbooks to develop healthier lifestyles. New Lifestyle Diet has created, free of charge, a comprehensive program based on science that helps develop healthy lifestyle changes through weekly lesson plans, email and discussion board membership, along with a lifestyle handbook. These tools make the New Lifestyle Diet a comprehensive, scientifically designed program that provides everything science has shown to be successful in the most complete programs available.

Third Party Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Commercial Internet Weight Loss Program and Handbook.

OBJECTIVE: To assess, in a 1-year randomized controlled trial, the efficacy of a commercial Internet weight loss program (such as New Lifestyle Diet) in improving weight, cardiovascular health, and quality of life.

DESIGN: Participants were 47 women with a mean age of 43.7 +/- 10.2 years and a mean BMI of 33.5 +/- 3.1 kg/m2. They were randomly assigned to either: 1) a commercial Internet-based program available to the public; or 2) a weight loss manual. At baseline, participants in both groups met briefly with a psychologist who instructed them to follow the components of their program as closely as possible. Additional brief visits were provided at weeks 8, 16, 26, and 52 to review their progress. Change in weight was the main outcome measure.

RESULTS: At week 16, participants in the internet program lost 0.9% +/- 3.2% of initial weight compared with 3.6 +/- 4.0% for women assigned to the weight loss manual. At week 52, losses increased to 1.1 +/- 4.0% and 4.0 +/- 5.1%, respectively. Results of a last-observation-carried-forward analysis found that women in the manual group lost significantly (p < 0.05) more weight (at both times) than those treated by the internet program. (Results, however, of baseline-carried-forward and completers analyses did not reach statistical significance.) There were no significant differences between groups in changes in cardiovascular risk factors or quality of life.

DISCUSSION: This study provides consumers with important information about the probable benefits they can expect from participating in a popular Internet-based weight loss program.

Obesity Research June;12(6):1011-8.

Benefits of Whey Protein for Maintaining Lean Muscle Mass and Increased Metabolism

New Lifestyle Diet is a nutritionally complete weight loss program that contains a scientifically designed balance of protein, carbohydrates, and essential vitamins and minerals. Unlike fad diets that restrict a specific macronutrient, such as protein or carbohydrates, New Lifestyle Diet is nutritionally balanced — allowing for optimum weight loss results. One key component of the New Lifestyle products is the utilization of whey and casein protein. Since the amount of lean muscle a person has is the main determinant of their metabolic rate, utilizing whey and casein protein allows the body to maintain lean muscle, while still losing weight. As a result, as the body loses weight, it is able to maintain lean muscle mass, and also a higher metabolic rate throughout the diet. As a result of this, the body also maintains a higher metabolic rate after reaching its goal weight.

Third Party Study: Consumption of fluid skim milk promotes greater muscle protein accretion after resistance exercise than does consumption of an isonitrogenous and isoenergetic soy-protein beverage.

BACKGROUND: Resistance exercise leads to net muscle protein accretion through a synergistic interaction of exercise and feeding. Proteins from different sources may differ in their ability to support muscle protein accretion because of different patterns of postprandial hyperaminoacidemia.

OBJECTIVE: We examined the effect of consuming isonitrogenous, isoenergetic, and macronutrient-matched soy or milk beverages (18 g protein, 750 kJ) on protein kinetics and net muscle protein balance after resistance exercise in healthy young men. Our hypothesis was that soy ingestion would result in larger but transient hyperaminoacidemia compared with milk and that milk would promote a greater net balance because of lower but prolonged hyperaminoacidemia.

DESIGN: Arterial-venous amino acid balance and muscle fractional synthesis rates were measured in young men who consumed fluid milk or a soy-protein beverage in a crossover design after a bout of resistance exercise.

RESULTS: Ingestion of both soy and milk resulted in a positive net protein balance. Analysis of area under the net balance curves indicated an overall greater net balance after milk ingestion (P < 0.05). The fractional synthesis rate in muscle was also greater after milk consumption (0.10 +/- 0.01%/h) than after soy consumption (0.07 +/- 0.01%/h; P = 0.05).

CONCLUSION: Milk-based proteins (such as New Lifestyle Diet products) promote muscle protein accretion to a greater extent than do soy-based proteins when consumed after resistance exercise. The consumption of either milk or soy protein with resistance training promotes muscle mass maintenance and gains, but chronic consumption of milk proteins after resistance exercise likely supports a more rapid lean mass accrual.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2007 Apr; 85(4):1031-40.

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