Adding Obesity Experts To Primary Care Clinics Improves Weight Loss Outcomes

Giving high-risk health care consumers access to an obesity specialist through their regular primary care clinic increased their chances of receiving at least one evidence-based weight-management treatment and led to more weight lost in just a year, according to a recent study. When compared to individuals who did not see an obesity specialist, those enrolled in the University of Michigan (U-M) Weight Navigation Program (WNP) who saw such a specialist lost about 12 pounds (or about 4.4% of their body weight) in the year after they received an individualized obesity treatment plan from an obesity . . .