1. Behavioral Therapy for Obesity.

Personalized multistep cognitive behavioral therapy for obesity

Multistep cognitive behavioral therapy for obesity (CBT-OB) is a treatment that may be delivered at three levels of care (outpatient, day hospital, and residential). In a stepped-care approach, CBT-OB associates the traditional procedures of weight-loss lifestyle modification, ie, physical activity and dietary recommendations, with specific cognitive behavioral strategies that have been indicat...

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy For

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en Europe. It is estimated that 200 million of the 350 million adults living in the EU are overweight or obese. In fact, the proportion of overweight and obese men is even higher in some European countries than it is in the USA. Of greatest concern is the fact that the number of overweight children in the EU is increasing by 400 000 every year, a warning that the obesity problem will be far wor...

Behavior Therapy for Obesity

Behavior therapy for obesity aims to make lifestyle modification necessary for weight loss in areas such as diet and exercise. It had been found that behavior therapy promotes weight loss and its maintenance by increasing treatment compliance. Lifestyle modification is regarded as essential for any treatment of obesity such as medication, dieting, surgery etc. Physicians often tend to be unwill...

Behavioral treatment of obesity.

The behavioral treatment of obesity consists of a set of principles and techniques to help overweight individuals modify inappropriate eating and activity habits. As provided in University and hospital clinics, this approach produces an average loss of 8.5 kg (9% of initial weight) in approximately 20 weeks. The maintenance of weight loss is facilitated by the provision of long-term patient-pro...