3 results match your criteria: "Melbourne Weight Management and Eating Behaviour Clinic[Affiliation]"
Audit of a behaviour modification program for weight management.
Aust Fam Physician
April 2003
Melbourne Weight Management and Eating Behaviour Clinic, Victoria.
Background: The traditional management of overweight and obesity is to make weight loss the primary goal and to offer advice about eating less and exercising more. In controlled settings participants who remain in weight loss programs usually lose 10% of their weight, However, one to two-thirds of the weight lost is regained within one year, and almost all is regained within five years.
Method: At the Melbourne Weight Management and Eating Behaviour Clinic we designed a program to assist patients achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Tips for long-term weight management.
Aust Fam Physician
April 2000
Melbourne Weight Management and Eating Behaviour Clinic, Victoria.
Background: Finding the best way to help our patients achieve and maintain the most healthy weight they can is not simple. There are many factors that can contribute to an individual exceeding his or her most healthy weight, including a complex mix of behavioural and biological variables.
Objective: This article explores some of the important strategies people need to employ to achieve and maintain the healthiest weight that is possible for them.
A new perspective to long-term weight management. Is there a better way?
Aust Fam Physician
April 2000
Melbourne Weight Management and Eating Behaviour Clinic, Victoria.
Background: To manage the increasing rate of excess weight and obesity, individual health care providers and many health promotion programs have focused on encouraging people to lose weight, and/or achieve a certain weight, for optimal health. The focus has been on the person's weight, in other words, on the 'end point'.
Objective: This article provides a theoretical background to the need to think of the issue of weight management in a new way.