A New Clinical Perspective: Treating Obesity with Nutritional Coaching v. Energy-restricted Diets

Obesity is an abnormal or excessive fat accumulation potentially leading to development of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, obstructive sleep apnea, and cancers that now affects more than 1.8 billion people [1]. Lifestyle interventions are often recommended to treat obesity with energy-restricted diets (ERD) most commonly used for management of this disease. The U.S. weight loss market is valued at over $66 billion and it seems thousands of new diets are created every year [2].

Source: Nutrition - October 6, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: Paula Helena Dayan, Gary A Sforzo, Nathalie Boisseau, Luciana Oquendo Pereira-Lancha, Antonio Herbert Lancha Source Type: research