Newswise — ROCHESTER, Minn. — The New Mayo Clinic Food regimen, the official dietary program developed by Mayo Clinic, launched key findings this week from its Diet Mindset Assessment. This survey of over 200,000 shoppers within the U.S. supplied insights into their mindsets when starting a brand new weight loss program program. Survey info was compiled and reviewed by Digital Wellness, a world-leading digital well being platform that powers the world’s most famous and trusted weight-loss manufacturers.
Key findings of the survey embody:
- Well being is a key motivator. Roughly 83% of individuals valued well being above all different aspirations. This follows a worldwide pattern of well being and wellness self-care, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Well being surpassed bodily look as an aspiration by greater than fivefold — a discovering that’s constant throughout the survey. Respondents reported they’re extra intrinsically motivated to attain a wholesome weight somewhat than by exterior elements.
- Over 55% of individuals had dieted at the least six occasions, indicating that folks within the U.S. are looking for sustainable and wise options to wholesome weight administration.
“It is somewhat a novel survey due to its massive scale, and that it explores the psychology of a dieter’s mindset,” says Donald Hensrud, M.D., medical editor of “The Mayo Clinic Food regimen.” “We wished to study extra in regards to the motivations and aspirations round weight reduction, and if a stage of readiness or sense of id performed a job in a weight loss program program’s outcomes.”
A complete of 209,269 folks accomplished the mindset questionnaire. Most had been females (86%) who had been 31 to 70 years outdated. The typical age was 52. The typical physique mass index of people that accomplished the questionnaire was 32.3, with 30% being labeled as chubby and 56% as overweight. On this pattern, 40% had dieted one to 5 occasions and 22% had dieted six to 10 occasions. The survey was commissioned by Digital Wellness in collaboration with Mayo Clinic Press.
“The survey signifies that individuals are prepared for a life-style change for good causes — primarily to enhance their well being. That is excellent news,” says Dr. Hensrud. “It means a lifestyle-changing dietary program — just like the New Mayo Clinic Food regimen — will likely be a great match for them and is extra more likely to have optimistic outcomes that may final for a very long time.”
As a wholesome life-style change program, the New Mayo Clinic Food regimen displays the newest advances in dietary analysis and gives new instruments that make following its easy steps simpler than ever. Members can select from versatile meal plans that embody vegetarian, Mediterranean, excessive protein and a brand new wholesome keto program.
This system is constructed on an all-new digital platform from Digital Wellness, which has instruments and trackers to assist members lose thrice extra weight. Unique instruments, reminiscent of a Behavior Optimizer, assist members make lasting significant modifications of their conduct. This system additionally contains limitless entry to a non-public Fb group that helps members join and help one another. It additionally can be utilized along with different sources, reminiscent of Mayo Clinic Press’s “Cook Smart, Eat Well” cookbook, the place members can put together their meals extra effectively through the use of easy, more healthy substances.
The New Mayo Clinic Food regimen is predicated on the No. 1 New York Occasions bestselling ebook collection and on-line program that constantly ranks as a U.S. Information & World Report “Finest Food regimen.”
Learn more about the New Mayo Clinic Diet and sign up for the program.
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About The New Mayo Clinic Food regimen
The New Mayo Clinic Diet is the one weight-loss program that includes a complete, whole-health menu program developed and accepted by Mayo Clinic. It options versatile meal plans that match into any life-style and easy-to-prepare recipes. The New Mayo Clinic Food regimen has been designed to assist individuals make lasting, significant modifications to their conduct to allow them to lead a more healthy life.
About Digital Wellness
For over 15 years, the accredited skilled well being care specialists at Digital Wellness have delivered distinctive outcomes to each shoppers and enterprise, establishing Digital Wellness as one of the revealed, revered and empowering well being platforms on the planet.
Based by Scott Penn — and bolstered by partnerships that embody one with the Mayo Clinic — Digital Wellness has a robust historical past of investing in well being and wellness analysis and improvements. Along with powering the New Mayo Clinic Food regimen, Digital Wellness works with pharmaceutical corporations, firms and the federal government to supply power illness administration applications.
About Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit group dedicated to innovation in scientific observe, training and analysis, and offering compassion, experience and solutions to everybody who wants therapeutic. Go to the Mayo Clinic News Network for added Mayo Clinic information.
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