News tagged with weight management programmes


Help for the overweight could be at the end of a phone

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created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Counselling via the phone and internet can help weight management in overweight individuals, according to a Dutch study published in the open access journal, BMC Public Health.





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Inexpensive face-to-face weight-loss support programmes effective

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created May 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For people trying to maintain weight after participation in a weight-loss programme, support from nurses is as effective as a more expensive intensive programme with dieticians and exercise specialists. The ...


Carrot or bribe? Rewards for healthier lifestyle stir debate

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created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Health authorities and corporations are increasingly offering money to people who quit smoking, lose weight or take medicine, despite uncertainty that such incentives work beyond a few months, doctors said on Friday.


GPs 'could do more' to help obese avoid surgery

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created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgery to treat obesity could be avoided if GPs and healthcare trusts put more time and money into early stage weight management programmes, a senior clinical researcher will say today.


Study finds meal replacements aid weight loss

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created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Meal replacements in a medically supervised weight loss program are successful in facilitating weight loss, according to a new study conducted at the University of Kentucky. The study appears in the August 2009 issue of the ...


3 to 6 months to lose weight gained in pregnancy is normal

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created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Once the baby arrives, many new mothers want to return to their former weight quickly -- just like film stars who appear in the media in bikinis just weeks after giving birth. But according to the German Institute for Quality ...


Link between erectile dysfunction and obesity explored in obesity and weight management

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created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obese men are at increased risk for erectile dysfunction (ED), likely caused by atherosclerosis-related hypertension and cardiovascular disease, as well as hormonal changes associated with obesity, as described in a timely ...


Probiotics may be able to help you keep slim

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created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers from LIFE - Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen are working on a promising research project that seems to indicate that probiotics have a slimming effect.


Telephone counseling may be as effective as face-to-face counseling in weight loss maintenance

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created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Face-to-face and telephone follow-up sessions appear to be more effective in the maintenance of weight loss for women from rural communities compared with weight loss education alone, according to a report in the November ...


Studies refute common stereotypes about obese workers

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created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New research led by a Michigan State University scholar refutes commonly held stereotypes that overweight workers are lazier, more emotionally unstable and harder to get along with than their "normal weight" colleagues.


Underweight and extremely obese die earlier than people of normal weight, study finds

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created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Underweight people and those who are extremely obese die earlier than people of normal weight—but those who are overweight actually live longer than people of normal weight. Those are the findings of a new study published ...



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