Weight-Loss Counseling Has Long-Term Achievements

December 01, 2011

Calls for primary care providers to offer obese patients behavioral weight-loss counseling have not been accompanied by adequate guidance on how such care could be delivered. According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, enhanced weight-loss counseling helps about one third of obese patients achieve long-term, clinically meaningful weight loss.
 
New England Journal of Medicine 2011; 365: 1969-1979

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