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The entire world is becoming overweight. Most people are motivated to try to lose weight for cosmetic reasons. Weight loss can decrease health risk factors and possibly improve prognosis. Weight loss can be difficult in people who are trying to stop smoking, as they tend to gain weight.
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Background During childhood and adolescence leading behavioural risk factors for the development of cardiometabolic diseases include poor diet quality and sedentary lifestyle.
Hannah L. Mayr +5 more
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Self-reported psychosocial health in obese patients before and after weight loss [PDF]
Psychosocial profiles were examined in 255 morbidly obese patients attending a hospital service offering access to standard weight loss therapies. 129 patients were reassessed after at least 6-month follow-up.
Saravanan, Ponnusamy +9 more
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Smoking and obesity are two leading causes of chronic disease in the developed world. Given that the combined impact of these factors on health can be especially deleterious, it is somewhat ironic that smoking is known to have beneficial effects on body weight; smoking is one of the easiest and most reliable approaches to weight loss, at least for low ...
Novak, Colleen M., Gavini, Chaitanya K.
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Interventions to achieve long-term weight loss in obese older people [PDF]
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Age and Ageing following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Witham, M. & Avenell, A. (2010).
Witham, Miles D. +2 more
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Comparison of the effect of individual dietary counselling and of standard nutritional care on weight loss in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiotherapy. [PDF]
Contains fulltext : 89909.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Clinical research shows that nutritional intervention is necessary to prevent malnutrition in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy.
Rasmussen-Conrad, E.L. +7 more
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Making concrete construals mindful:a novel approach for developing mindfulness and self-compassion to assist weight loss [PDF]
Research on the usefulness of mindfulness and self-compassion for dieting has focused on meditative practices. However, meditation can be difficult to maintain, especially while dieting. Thus, the present research attempted to induce mindfulness and self-
Mantzios, Michail +2 more
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Mechanism of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist in the treatment of obesity and food addiction [PDF]
Obesity and food addiction have become major threats to public health, and their synergistic interactions exacerbate metabolic abnormalities and comorbidities.
LIU Luyao, LI Linwei, WANG Chen, DI Jianzhong
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Background Combination anti‐obesity medications (AOMs) to treat postoperative bariatric surgery weight regain have limited data on their use in the clinical setting.
Gunther Wong +6 more
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Weight management: a comparison of existing dietary approaches in a work-site setting [PDF]
<b>OBJECTIVES:</b> (1) To compare the effectiveness a 2512 kJ (600 kcal) daily energy deficit diet (ED) with a 6279 kJ (1500 kcal) generalized low-calorie diet (GLC) over a 24 week period (12 weeks weight loss plus 12 weeks weight maintenance)
Leslie, W.S. +7 more
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