Behavioral treatment of obesity: The current status
1978
Stunkard, Albert J.
Extract: Behavior therapy represents a significant improvement over traditional methods of treatment of mild and moderate obesity. However, its results are still of limited clinical significance. Weight losses have been modest and the variability in results large and unexplained. Even long-term maintenance of weight loss, which, it was originally hoped, would be a particular benefit of the behavioral approach, has not yet been established. One possibility of increasing the effectiveness of behavioral treatments is to combine them with other measures--dietary and pharmacological. Three recent efforts at combining treatments are described.
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