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Weight Loss - Types and Health Benefits

Clinical weight loss program

This type of program is usually provided in a health-care setting, such as a clinic or hospital and it is supervised by licensed health professionals, such as physicians, nurses, dietitians, and/or psychologists. Clinical weight loss programs may offer various services such as nutrition education, behavior change therapy, medical care, with or without weight loss drug treatment. A clinical program is the best option for people who are seriously overweight or obese.

Non-clinical weight loss program

A non-clinical program do not suppose the direct involvement of licensed health professionals. It may be commercially operated, such as a privately owned weight-loss chain. You can follow a program on your own just by using a counselor, website, book or weight-loss product. This type of program not provided in a health-care setting, but you can join other people in a worksite program, support group or community-based program. Non-clinical weight-loss programs may require you to use certain program's foods or supplements.

Health benefits of weight loss

  • Decreasing the risk of diabetes
    Diabetes is one of major diseases and it is the one most clearly linked to overweight. Statistics show that of the 11 million Americans suffering from diabetes, 90 percent have non-insulin-dependent (Type II) diabetes - precisely the type most closely associated with excess weight.

  • Preventing Cancer
    While there's some debate over whether overweight is a risk factor in cancer, may studies have found a clear relationship between certain types of cancer (such as breast, prostate, colon and other) and a high-fat diet, which generally leads to overweight as well. In Japan, where until recently fat intake was far lower than North America or Europe, the incidence of breast and prostate cancer was also far low.

  • Some other ways weight loss is good to your health:
    • Increased energy level
    • Lower your cholesterol levels
    • Reduce your blood pressure
    • Decreases your risk of sudden death from heart disease or stroke
    • Improved blood sugar levels

    Latest news related to obesity and weight loss

  • People more likely to change diet with written plan combined with counseling calls
    According to research at University of Michigan combining telephone counseling calls with a daily written diet plan increases a person's success in improving fruit and vegetables consumption.
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  • Turning your workday into weight loss
    For many years, the office has been considered a place to sit eight hours a day and slowly pile on weight. A do-nothing place, a real enemy of fitness. But one expert believes it can be a big part of the solution just by redesigning the office and the office workday.
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  • Adults lack information regarding effective weight loss methods, programs and strategies
    According to a white paper released by 17th US Surgeon General Dr. Richard H. Carmona and Alliance, primary care physicians agree they have a role in addressing obesity, but do not have the right weight management resources.
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  • New weight loss aid?
    A new study in Japan suggests that an amino acid called isoleucine may play an important role in weight loss.
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  • Heart-healthy, low-cal diets promote weight loss
    Heart-healthy diets that reduce calorie intake—regardless of differing proportions of fat, protein, or carbohydrate—can help overweight and obese adults achieve and maintain weight loss, according to a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health,
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  • Bariatric surgery and behavioral modifications are equally successful in maintaining weight loss According to a new study published online by the International Journal of Obesity, severely obese patients who have lost significant amounts of weight by changing their diet and exercise habits may be as successful in keeping the weight off long-term as those individuals who lost weight after bariatric surgery
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  • Book Offers Novel Approach to Weight Loss
    Could a novel with an embedded message about good health help overweight girls develop the motivation to lose a few pounds? New research suggests that it just might, but the results weren't dramatic.
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  • The Top 10 food myths revealed
    Think 'light' coloured olive oil is lighter in calorie content or eating carbs can give love handles? Well, in that case, you need a reality check, for all these notions are mere myths, say two Sydney based dieticians.
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  • Weight loss program or exercise?
    In the first study of its kind, using sophisticated methods to measure body composition, the nationally known commercial weight loss program, Weight Watchers, was compared to gym membership programs to find out which method wins in the game of good health. [ read full article ]

  • Body mass index in adolescence in relation to cause-specific mortality
    People who were already overweight in adolescence (14-19 years old) have an increased mortality rate from a range of chronic diseases as adults; endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, colon cancer and respiratory diseases. There were also many cases of sudden death in this group.
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