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Energy balance
Preventing gradual population weight gain by addressing a small daily 'energy gap' (approx. 50-100 kcal) through small, sustainable lifestyle changes is a viable international strategy to reduce obesity prevalence.
Focus on making tiny, sustainable changes every day rather than aiming for drastic overhauls. Try to walk 2,000 extra steps daily and cut 100 calories from your diet. These small adjustments can prevent gradual weight gain and are easier to maintain long-term than extreme diets or exercise regimens.
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An alternative strategy to obesity treatment is prevention of excess weight gain... This strategy would represent a long-term approach to addressing obesity in the population, and is based on the notion that it is easier and more feasible for people to make and sustain small rather than large lifestyle changes.
Why this rating
The paper is a review/proposal citing observational data and small pilot studies (AOM), not a large-scale definitive RCT.
Source
International strategies to address obesity
James O. Hill et al. · Obesity Reviews · 2008
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-789x.2007.00437.x
narrative_reviewCited 72×
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