Comprehensive approach to outpatient obesity management

Comprehensive approach to outpatient obesity management

Extract: Evidence is presented that obesity is a physiological disease and that body weight of obese human beings is regulated at a higher level than that of lean human beings. The comprehensive program for weight reduction developed at the University of Virginia Medical Center is described, and res...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Dietetic Association 1984-04, Vol.84 (4), p.439-444
Hauptverfasser: Atkinson, Richard L, Russ, Carolyn S, Ciavarella, Paula A, Owsley, Elizabeth S, Bibbs, Mary Lynn
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Ambulatory Care
behavior modification
Behavior Therapy
Body Weight
Diet, Reducing
food and nutrition programs
Heart Rate
Humans
nutrition education
Nutritional Sciences - education
obesity
Obesity - therapy
Outpatient clinics
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
overweight
paraprofessionals
Patient Compliance
Physical Exertion
physiology
Psychological aspects
Virginia
weight control
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Zusammenfassung:Extract: Evidence is presented that obesity is a physiological disease and that body weight of obese human beings is regulated at a higher level than that of lean human beings. The comprehensive program for weight reduction developed at the University of Virginia Medical Center is described, and results from the first 4 years of operation are presented. Nonphysician nutrition therapists provide care comparable with that available in physician-run programs but at a lower cost. (author)
ISSN:0002-8223
1878-3570
DOI:10.1016/S0002-8223(21)08175-X