Losing weight over the phone

(Springer) An intensive lifestyle intervention, proven to help people lose weight to prevent diabetes, also works in primary care when delivered over the telephone to obese patients with metabolic syndrome. Group telephone sessions appear to be effective for greater weight loss, according to a new study by Drs. Paula Trief and Ruth Weinstock from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. Their work appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/s-lwo070913.php

Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 9, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news