Weight loss: Just phone it in
Many obese patients in a program delivered mostly over the telephone shed a medically significant amount of weight and were able to keep it off for at least two years.
The program, which offers telephone counseling by health coaches with website and physician support, was just as effective as another weight-loss program that involved in-person coaching, a study found.
“In most weight loss studies, there is a lot of emphasis on frequent in-person counseling sessions, but from a logistical perspective, it’s a disaster,” says says study leader Lawrence J. Appel, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
“You could be living in rural South Dakota, and we could deliver this intervention. It removes some of the major logistical barriers.”
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Any endeavor requires a plan, a set of instructions or a procedure that must be followed in order to be successful. The same goes for weight loss. Yes, diets can be successful but are mainly used for short term goals – like getting in shape for the beach, losing weight for an upcoming wedding and so on and so forth. For long term weight loss, however, there are certain key principles that must be incorporated into your lifestyle.
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