Jump starting shared medical appointments for diabetes with weight management: Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Rates of glycemic control remain suboptimal nationwide. Medication intensification for diabetes can have undesirable side effects (weight gain, hypoglycemia), which offset the benefits of glycemic control. A Shared Medical Appointment (SMA) intervention for diabetes that emphasizes weight management could improve glycemic outcomes and reduce weight while simultaneously lowering diabetes medication needs, resulting in less hypoglycemia and better quality of life.

Maintenance of Weight Loss After Initiation of Nutrition Training: A Randomized Trial.

Background: Weight regain after successful weight loss interventions is common.

Objective: To establish the efficacy of a weight loss maintenance program compared with usual care in obese adults.

Design: 2-group, parallel, randomized trial stratified by initial weight loss (<10 kg vs.

Navigating Gluten-Related Health Disorders and Nutritional Considerations of Gluten-Free Diets.

There are myriad reasons why individuals choose to follow a gluten-free diet, which continues to be a pervasive nutrition trend. This commentary includes a discussion of the most common reasons that patients choose gluten-free foods, including celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

Factors associated with choice of a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet during a behavioral weight loss intervention.

Individuals undertaking a weight loss effort have a choice among proven dietary approaches. Factors contributing to choice of either a low-fat/low-calorie diet or a low-carbohydrate diet, two of the most studied and popular dietary approaches, are unknown. The current study used data from participants randomized to the 'choice' arm of a trial examining whether being able to choose a diet regimen yields higher weight loss than being randomly assigned to a diet.

Study design and protocol for a theory-based behavioral intervention focusing on maintenance of weight loss: the Maintenance After Initiation of Nutrition TrAINing (MAINTAIN) study.

Background: Obesity is a significant public health problem. Although various lifestyle approaches are effective for inducing significant weight loss, few effective behavioral weight maintenance strategies have been identified. It has been proposed that behavior maintenance is a distinct state that involves different psychological processes and behavioral skills than initial behavior change.

Considering patient diet preference to optimize weight loss: design considerations of a randomized trial investigating the impact of choice.

A variety of diet approaches achieve moderate weight loss in many individuals. Yet, most diet interventions fail to achieve meaningful weight loss in more than a few individuals, likely due to inadequate adherence to the diet. It is widely conjectured that targeting the diet to an individual's food preferences will enhance adherence, thereby improving weight loss.