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A study from the Netherlands found that family involvement is a key factor in helping overweight teens and children lose weight.

 

Hiltje O. Luttikhuis of the University Medical Center in Groningen, the Netherlands, studied whether changes in lifestyle, family involvement, surgery, or drugs were effective in helping young people lose weight.

Family lifestyle interventions that included behavioral therapy and changes in diet and exercise worked better than self-help programs. Teens and children on drug therapy suffered some adverse effects.

"While there is limited quality data to recommend one treatment program over another, this review shows that combined behavioral lifestyle interventions compared to standard care or self-help can produce a significant and clinically meaningful reduction in overweight in children and adolescents," the study's authors wrote in the journal Cochrane Review.

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A new study from the Netherlands found that family involvement is a key factor in helping overweight teens and children lose weight.

Hiltje O. Luttikhuis of the University Medical Center in Groningen, the Netherlands, studied whether changes in lifestyle, family involvement, surgery, or drugs were effective in helping young people lose weight.

Family lifestyle interventions that included behavioral therapy and changes in diet and exercise worked better than self-help programs. Teens and children on drug therapy suffered some adverse effects.

"While there is limited quality data to recommend one treatment program over another, this review shows that combined behavioral lifestyle interventions compared to standard care or self-help can produce a significant and clinically meaningful reduction in overweight in children and adolescents," the study's authors wrote in the journal Cochrane Review.

Labels: weight_loss, families, involvement

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Guidelines that appeared in the December 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association call for doctors to help prevent childhood obesity.

The new guidelines suggest that doctors advise local schools to provide an hour of exercise every day at all grade levels and to restrict junk foods in school cafeterias. Doctors should work within their communities to help create better access for safe walking, bicycling and athletic activities. Finally, physicians should make a point of discussing nutrition and exercise with parents, and should advise new mothers to breastfeed their infants for the first six months.

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