Region of the country with the highest obesity rates  Regal Keto  Overweight individuals were randomized to receive either standard medical care or semiweekly classes offering advice and encouragement to eat a lowfat diet centered around fruits vegetables whole grains and legumes And thats all it was just empowerment and information empowerment with knowledge No meals were provided the intervention group was merely informed about the benefits of plant based living and encouraged To fit it into their own lives at home No significant change in the control group but the plantbased intervention group even though there were no restrictions on portions and being able to eat freely all the healthy foods they wanted lost an average of nineteen pounds by the end of the threemonth study Nineteen pounds is a respectable weight loss but what happened next? At the end of those twelve weeks class was dismissed and no more instruction was given.