Obesity and Diabetes

Monthly contact with counselor provides some benefit for maintaining weight loss

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 24th, 2008

Weight-loss program participants who had a brief, monthly personal contact intervention – most often a 10-15 minute phone conversation – regained less weight than participants who were in a Web-based intervention or self-directed program, according to a study in the March 12 issue of JAMA.

"Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese. Together overweight and obesity are the second leading cause of preventable death, primarily through effects on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors (hypertension, dyslipidemia [abnormal amounts of lipids and lipoproteins in the blood], and type 2 diabetes). Weight loss improves these risk factors, and evidence suggests...

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