Weight Management

References

Citations

1. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (2000). The Practical Guide: Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults (NIH Publication No. 00-4084). Available online: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/prctgd_c.pdf.

2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2008). 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (ODPHP Publication No. U0036). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Available online: http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/pdf/paguide.pdf.

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• Corbett EC (2007). Principles of nutrition in ambulatory care. In LR Barker et al., eds., Principles of Ambulatory Medicine, 7th ed., pp. 228–240. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

• Dansinger ML, et al. (2007). Meta-analysis: The effect of dietary counseling for weight loss. Annals of Internal Medicine, 147(1): 41–50.

• Heymsfield SB, Baumgartner RN (2006). Body composition and anthropometry. In Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, 10th ed., pp. 751–769. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

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• Laquatra I (2004). Nutrition for weight management. In LK Mahan, S Escott-Stump, eds., Krause's Food, Nutrition, and Diet Therapy, 11th ed., pp. 558–588. Philadelphia: Saunders.

• Riedt CS, et al. (2007). Premenopausal overweight women do not lose bone during moderate weight loss with adequate or higher calcium intake. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 85(4): 972–980.

• Truby H, et al. (2006). Randomised controlled trial of four commercial weight loss programmes in the UK: Initial findings from the BBC "diet trials." BMJ. Published online May 23, 2007 (doi:10.1136/bmj.38833.411204.80).

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