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The intensive lifestyle intervention yielded benefits including less need for medication, improvement in quality of life, and better physical functioning.
Practitioners can highlight these additional benefits when discussing lifestyle changes with patients.
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The intensive lifestyle intervention yielded a number of other benefits, including less need for medication, improvement in quality of life, and better physical functioning.
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Based on the large RCT design of the Look AHEAD trial.
Source
Looking Back on Look AHEAD
Kevin Lomangino · Clinical Nutrition INSIGHT · 2013
DOI 10.1097/01.nmd.0000438289.63719.fe
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