其他减重项目[的研究]也建议，拥有朋友的支持催促帮助人们坚持自己的饮食和运动方案。
Other [studies of] weight-loss programmes [have] suggest[ed] that [having] the support and chivvying of friends help[s] people stick to their diet[s] and exercise regimes.
然而这些研究，全都是在现实世界中相互认识的群体中做的。
These studies, however, [have] all [been] done [with] groups [of] people [who] knew each other in the real world.
他们的结果，刚刚发表在皇家学会界面期刊，建议确实如此。
Their results, just published in the Journal of Royal Society Interface, suggest [that] it is.
这些网站貌似非常类似于现实世界的健身房，里头40%的这些人，大约19000人访问了一次就从未回来。只有22,419持续长久到给自己称重至少两次。
Such sites, it seems, are very similar to[/much like] gyms in the real world, in [that] 40% of these people, around 19,000 visited once and never came back. Only 22,419 lasted long enough to weigh themselves [at least] twice.
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