Weight Loss

Combining personalized counseling with Weight Watchers maximizes weight loss

Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 3rd, 2002

by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Adding personalized counseling to the Weight Watchers program was an effective method of promoting weight loss in obese women with breast cancer, according to a report in Obesity Research.

"The objective was to develop effective weight-loss methods for women who have had breast cancer, because obesity may result in an adverse prognosis," said Zora Djuric and colleagues at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit and The WW Group, Inc., in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

The investigators randomly assigned 48 obese women (body mass index range=30-44 kg/m²) who had been...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-10-03)

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