Interactive weight management websites help women to eat healthily and exercise, perhaps in their ladies fitness wear, a study has suggested.

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research found that the more people used an interactive weight management website, the more weight they lost and kept off.

"Consistency and accountability are essential in any weight maintenance program. The unique part of this intervention was that it was available on the internet, whenever and wherever people wanted to use it," explained the study's lead author Dr Kristine Funk.

The website required women to log on and input their weight, the number of minutes they had exercised for and the number of days they kept food diaries.

Consistent website users who logged on and recorded their weight at least once a month over the two-and-a-half-year study period were better at keeping the weight off.

Last month, University of Edinburgh scientist Dr Jamie Pearce published a book claiming that, to tackle obesity and encourage weight loss, the government should make it easier for people to exercise.

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