As part of a 10-year study of innovative permanent weight loss methods, an experiment took place in 2005-6 in which, for the first (and, so far as we know, only) time, a study participant on a weight loss diet lost precisely 11.5 pounds in precisely 11.5 weeks by strictly following a protocol called "daily elimination of redundant nutrients" (DEORM).

Throughout the 11.5-week experiment, the study participant attempted to eliminate precisely 500 kcals of redundant nutrients (e.g., sugar) per day from his daily consistent diet menu.

While on the DEORM protocol, the study participant experienced no hunger, cravings, metabolic deceleration, plateau, lack of motivation, or gainback.

In addition, the experiment demonstrated that it could only succeed because not one additional calorie was expended through exercise during its course. Had it not been so, we hypothesize that the study participant's metabolism would have fallen, thereby eventually producing full gainback, which has heretofore been the outcome of at least 95% of all similar diet experiments.

In 2007, Dr. William R. Shankle composed, and Anchor-International Foundation submitted to the Obesity Society, an abstract for a paper reporting the experiment for peer review.

(Click here to read Abstract.)

Six months later, the Society rejected the submission.

Four years later, the six-foot tall study participant continues to remain at the "goal weight" he achieved in 2006 (155 pounds).

A new experiment is proposed to replicate the results of the 2005-6 experiment.

It is proposed that the foundation recruit additional obese individuals, each at an average of 40 pounds overweight, who agree to design and follow their own proprietary DEORM diets to test whether each can lose weight permanently at an average rate of precisely one pound per week for (e.g.) 40 weeks.

Study participants will be seen regularly by a medical staff to monitor their health and determine the safety and effectiveness of the treatment they receive.

During (or following) the experiment, a new paper will be written based on the 2005-6 data, and incorporating data from the new experiment, to be published for peer review in an appropriate scientific journal.

Providing that all four study participants lose weight permanently at precise, identical rates, the experiment will demonstrate that all 2005-6 data are replicable, which will fulfill the purpose of the experiment.

The resulting paper will intend to identify the cause of virtually all eating disorders (which is chosen or advised variable rational food choices) as well as the "cure" (DEORM, plus the required controlled release of non-drug related, hunger-suppressing neurotransmitters, created solely by daily vigorous exercise that must initiate well before weight-loss DEORM can successfully begin).

Study participants will weigh themselves, compute personal consistency data, and report both statistics daily by means of their own proprietary web logs, which will include a required daily report of subjective experiences while on the DEORM protocol (which in every case studied so far has provided essential motivation for compliance).