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Teaching patients about various options for losing weight


 

References

Understanding Your Weight-loss Options is a brochure from the Obesity Action Coalition designed to help patients who want to lose weight. Available at http://www.obesityaction.org/wp-content/uploads/UYWLO.pdf, the brochure summarizes behavior modification, community-based programs, commercial weight-loss products and programs, physician-supervised weight loss, and bariatric surgery.

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