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Technology-assisted behavioral interventions may be effective for producing weight loss among overweight and obese adults.

Healthcare professionals can consider using technology-assisted interventions to support weight loss in patients.

Persons consuming fatty fish twice per week had a 47% lower risk of coronary death compared with those who consumed fatty fish less than once per month.

Encouraging the consumption of fatty fish may reduce coronary death risk in older adults.

Cardiac rehabilitation programs should develop behavioral weight loss programs to assist cardiac patients in losing weight and improving risk factors.

Practitioners should consider integrating behavioral weight loss strategies into cardiac rehabilitation programs.

A comprehensive, behavioral-based approach is the most effective treatment strategy for obesity in cardiac patients.

Practitioners should implement comprehensive behavioral strategies to address obesity in cardiac patients.

Cessation of regular exercise will likely be associated with a high risk of positive fat balance and weight gain.

For practitioners, this highlights the importance of maintaining regular exercise to prevent weight gain.

Metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) was associated with greater total weight loss (mean 28.3%) compared to GLP-1 receptor agonists (mean 10.3%) in patients with class II and III obesity.

MBS may be a more effective option for significant weight loss in patients with higher obesity classes.

Carbohydrate restriction leads to weight loss and improved glycaemic status in obese and diabetic subjects.

Implementing carbohydrate restriction can be an effective strategy for weight loss and improving blood sugar levels in targeted populations.

A Mediterranean diet should serve as a basis that can be restructured into other kinds of diets for NAFLD patients.

Practitioners should consider using a Mediterranean diet as a flexible foundation for dietary recommendations for NAFLD patients.

Dietary composition is important for long-term health outcomes in NAFLD patients.

Practitioners should prioritize healthy dietary compositions to ensure long-term safety and efficacy for NAFLD patients.

The intervention group achieved significantly higher protein intake at 26–28 weeks and 36–38 weeks gestation.

Practitioners should focus on increasing protein intake in pregnant women through structured dietary interventions.

Both training groups experienced significant decreases in percent body fat (1.3 ± 1.3%).

Both training methods can effectively reduce body fat in untrained young women.

The multidomain lifestyle intervention (ILI) resulted in a 9% lower increase in multimorbidity index scores compared to diabetes support and education (DSE) over 8 years.

Implementing a multidomain lifestyle intervention may help reduce the progression of multimorbidity in at-risk individuals.

Carbohydrate (CHO) supplementation during soccer matches results in muscle glycogen sparing (39%), greater second-half running distances, and more goals being scored with less conceded compared to consumption of water.

Practitioners should consider recommending CHO supplementation for soccer players during matches to enhance performance.

Daily carbohydrate intakes of soccer players are often insufficient to replenish muscle glycogen stores.

Soccer players may need to increase their carbohydrate intake to ensure adequate glycogen stores.

Maternal change in step counts strongly predicts child change in step counts for that day, with children taking an additional 2117.6 steps above baseline on days when their mother met her goal.

Encouraging mothers to meet physical activity goals can significantly increase children's activity levels.

Paternal change in step counts also strongly predicts child change in step counts for that day, with children taking an additional 1598.0 steps above baseline on days when their father met his goal.

Encouraging fathers to meet physical activity goals can also significantly increase children's activity levels.

Weight loss is associated with a protective effect on the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Weight loss may be beneficial for reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes in this demographic.

The treatment with GLP-1 RA resulted in a reduction in the risk of any cardiovascular event with a relative risk of 0.81.

The relative risk indicates a significant benefit of GLP-1 RA in reducing cardiovascular events.

Interdisciplinary interventions are effective in promoting weight loss.

Practitioners should consider interdisciplinary approaches to facilitate weight loss.

Ongoing support of participants is key to maintaining weight loss results beyond initial study duration.

Practitioners should implement ongoing support strategies for participants.

Interdisciplinary interventions showed consistent results for weight loss but not for blood lipids, blood glucose, and blood pressure.

Practitioners should focus on weight loss outcomes when using interdisciplinary interventions.

Suboptimal diet was the leading cause of cardiometabolic mortality in 4 of 5 countries, with population-attributable fractions from 40.7% in Bangladesh to 56.9% in Pakistan.

Health policies should prioritize addressing dietary factors to reduce cardiometabolic mortality.

Increasing physical activity after weight loss can effectively re-establish a state of high energy flux without significant weight regain.

Practitioners should encourage increased physical activity in clients who have lost weight to help maintain their weight loss.

The Hybrid behavioral weight loss program resulted in a weight loss of 4.8 ± 4.9 percent.

Practitioners may consider Hybrid programs to enhance weight loss outcomes in emerging adults.