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Obesity and Diabetes
American Heart Association Meeting Report
March 25th, 2008
People who shed weight and want to keep it off might benefit from monthly personal contact interventions, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism. Results of the study will also be simultaneously published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a test of three ways that might help people maintain weight loss, those who received monthly personal counseling were best at keeping off unwanted pounds. Overall, 42 percent of the study members maintained at least a 4-kilogram (9-pound) weight loss for 30 months. "We know how to help people lose...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-03-25)
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