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Lifestyle interventions targeting diet and physical activity are effective in sustaining weight loss up to two years with extended care.
Health professionals should consider implementing lifestyle interventions focusing on diet and physical activity for weight loss maintenance.
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The results revealed that lifestyle interventions targeting diet and physical activity are effective in sustaining weight loss up to two years with extended care.
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Based on systematic review of randomised controlled trials.
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The effects of contemporary behavioural weight loss maintenance interventions for long term weight loss: a systematic review
Jo Gilmartin et al. · Journal of research in nursing · 2015
DOI 10.1177/1744987115599671
systematic_review · n=13Cited 11×
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