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Health Benefits Of Intentional Long-Term Weight Loss? | Dr …

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Despite the difficulties inherent in achieving AND maintaining long-term weight loss, the health benefits for those who manage to do so are widely believed to be substantial.

While the health benefits associated with intentional weight loss for some complications of obesity (such as elevated lipids and diabetes) are well documented, high-quality studies to back many other potentialhealth benefits are harder to find.

Just how well (or poorly) theputative health benefits of long-term intentional weight loss are documented for each of the many conditions associated with obesity, is nowdetailed in a comprehensive review of the literature that we justpublished in the Annual Reviews of Nutrition.

The 40 page long review, which includes almost 250 relevant publications, supports the following main findings:

However, there are many other issues where putative benefits of intentional weight loss remain even less clear than with the above.

For many conditions we will likely not know the long-term benefits of obesity treatments till better treatments become available and are tested in affected individuals.

@DrSharma Kananaskis,AB

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