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Prevalence of Attempting Weight Loss and Strategies for Controlling Weight by Mary K. Serdula is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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EIGHT LOSS IS AN IMportant concern for the US population. Consumers spend $33 billion annually for weight loss products and services. 1 Despite these expenditures, overweight and obesity have been increasing in the United States. 2,3 Although long-term weight loss is difficult to achieve, research suggests that changes in both diet and physical activity are important to long-term success. 4 -6 For losing weight, both the US Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Clinical Guidelines recommend decreasing calorie intake and increasing physical activity. 6,7 Both guidelines recommend at least 30 minutes or more of moderate physical activity on all or most days of the week for all Americans. We used data from the 1996 statebased Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to examine the following: ( 1) the prevalence of trying to lose or maintain weight and factors associated with those attempts, (2) what weight control strategies persons report using in regard to diet and physical activity, and (3) what persons who are trying to control their weight report they weigh and what they would like to weigh.
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- Author
- Mary K. Serdula
- Publisher
- American Medical Association; American Medical Association (AMA); Publons (ISSN 0098-7484)
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)