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Clinicians are generally ill-equipped to advise patients on effective, longitudinal weight loss strategies.
There is a need for better tools and training for clinicians in weight loss strategies.
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Surprisingly, clinicians are ill-equipped in general to advise patients on effective, longitudinal weight loss strategies.
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The claim is based on observations about clinician practices.
Source
qDIET: toward an automated, self-sustaining knowledge base to facilitate linking point-of-sale grocery items to nutritional content.
Valliammai Chidambaram et al. · PubMed · 2013
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