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Physician recommendations result in greater weight loss, research finds [MedicalXpress.com]

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Patients advised to lose weight by their physicians dropped more pounds on average than those who didn't receive a recommendation, according to new research from the University of Georgia published in the journal Economics & Human Biology.

 

Using a national data set from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, study author Joshua Berning found that  advice was associated with a reported 10-pound loss for women and a 12-pound loss for men over a one-year period, after controlling the data for numerous covariates. The diet and exercise habits of participants were also associated with  loss.

"The data set also measures the number of people who were advised to , regardless of whether or not they wanted to hear it," said Berning, an assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. "That measure, of whether they were recommended to lose weight, makes this data unique."

 

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