Weight Loss: A Better Solution

Wrapping up our look at the research paper that examined the effectiveness of commercial weight loss programs, I think the authors dropped the ball. Yes, they did what they intended to do: review the research on weight loss programs with the purpose of being able to point physicians to effective programs based on the evidence. But that ends up being lame. All they did was provide an outside source the physicians could recommend; they completely ignored the idea of physicians providing weight loss programs within the medical practice.

Although the authors were all physicians or physicians in training, they think . . .

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