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Why weight?.

Advance for nurse practitioners

Pronsati MP.
PMID: 16972479
Adv Nurse Pract. 2006 Aug;14(8):12.

No abstract available.

Effectiveness of a dietary re-education and physical activity program on obesity.

Revista gaucha de enfermagem

Christinelli HCB, Souza JMS, Costa MAR, Teston ÉF, Borim MLC, Fernandes CAM.
PMID: 33237216
Rev Gaucha Enferm. 2020 Nov 20;41:e20190213. doi: 10.1590/1983-1447.2020.20190213. eCollection 2020.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects on obesity of a weight loss method that associates dietary re-education and physical activity.METHOD: A retrospective, cross-sectional, and quantitative study using secondary data from individual follow-up forms of a weight loss clinic located in...

Strategies for Physical Activity Interventions in the Treatment of Obesity.

Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America

Jakicic JM, Rogers RJ, Collins AM, Jackson R.
PMID: 32418591
Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2020 Jun;49(2):289-301. doi: 10.1016/j.ecl.2020.02.004. Epub 2020 Apr 15.

Physical activity contributes to body weight regulation. At least 150 minutes per week of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity may be needed. When not coupled with dietary restriction, physical activity contributes to an average weight loss of approximately 2 to...

Storing up problems: the medical case for a slimmer nation.

Clinical medicine (London, England)

Prentice A.
PMID: 15139721
Clin Med (Lond). 2004 Mar-Apr;4(2):99-101. doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-2-99.

No abstract available.

"I didn't want to do it on my own": A qualitative study of women's perceptions of facilitating and risk factors for weight control on a UK commercial community program.

Appetite

Hugh-Jones S, Burke S, Stubbs J.
PMID: 34010725
Appetite. 2021 Oct 01;165:105308. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105308. Epub 2021 May 16.

Overweight and obesity remain serious public health concerns. Outcomes from community based commercial weight management programmes vary, relapse is common and drop out is high. Outcomes could be improved by better understanding experiences on these programmes. The aim of...

Development of the live well curriculum for recent immigrants: a community-based participatory approach.

Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action

Tovar A, Vikre EK, Gute DM, Kamins CL, Pirie A, Boulos R, Metayer N, Economos CD.
PMID: 22820229
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2012;6(2):195-204. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2012.0024.

BACKGROUND: There are few weight gain prevention interventions aimed at new immigrants. Live Well, a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study, was designed to address this gap.OBJECTIVE: The goal of this paper is to describe the development of the Live...

A systematic review of economic evaluations of web-based or telephone-delivered interventions for preventing overweight and obesity and/or improving obesity-related behaviors.

Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity

Brown V, Tran H, Downing KL, Hesketh KD, Moodie M.
PMID: 33763956
Obes Rev. 2021 Jul;22(7):e13227. doi: 10.1111/obr.13227. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Obesity prevention interventions with behavioral or lifestyle-related components delivered via web-based or telephone technologies have been reported as comparatively low cost as compared with other intervention delivery modes, yet to date, no synthesized evidence of cost-effectiveness has been published....

The cause of obesity is multifactorial but GPs can do more.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Jukaku SA, Williams SRP.
PMID: 33849923
BMJ. 2021 Apr 13;373:n956. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n956.

No abstract available.

Acknowledging individual responsibility while emphasizing social determinants in narratives to promote obesity-reducing public policy: a randomized experiment.

PloS one

Niederdeppe J, Roh S, Shapiro MA.
PMID: 25706743
PLoS One. 2015 Feb 23;10(2):e0117565. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117565. eCollection 2015.

This study tests whether policy narratives designed to increase support for obesity-reducing public policies should explicitly acknowledge individual responsibility while emphasizing social, physical, and economic (social) determinants of obesity. We use a web-based, randomized experiment with a nationally representative...

[What do we know about the fat child?].

Ugeskrift for laeger

Brostrøm K.
PMID: 726107
Ugeskr Laeger. 1978 Nov 27;140(48):2996-8.

No abstract available.

New directions for effective weight control with mentally retarded people.

Mental retardation

Staugaitis SD.
PMID: 642819
Ment Retard. 1978 Apr;16(2):157-63.

No abstract available.

Obesity: a case for prevention.

Probe (Ottawa, Ont.)

[No authors listed]
PMID: 3269546
Probe. 1988 Sep;22(3):129-32.

No abstract available.

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