Mixed
A comprehensive, team-based lifestyle intervention combining dietary education, supervised exercise, and behavioral counseling yields moderate but significant weight loss (mean 4.8 kg) and improved body composition in obese adults over one year.
To lose weight sustainably, combine dietary changes with regular exercise and behavioral support. This specific program used 25 sessions over a year, including medical check-ins, dietitian advice, cooking classes, and supervised exercise. The key was not just the activity, but the structured support and motivation to maintain these changes long-term.
In conclusion, retention to the team-based lifestyle management programme resulted in moderate but significant weight loss with beneficial changes in body composition, and the trend to lose weight was maintained throughout the year.
Why this rating
Single-arm design without a control group limits causal inference compared to RCTs, though the sample size is moderate (n=134).
Source
Team-based “Get-a-Grip” lifestyle management programme in the treatment of obesity
Jyrki Taurio et al. · Preventive Medicine Reports · 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101119
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