06 Apr Brief Nutritional Telephone Calls Help Keep Pounds Off
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr. Corrine Voils
Corrine I. Voils, PhD
Research Career Scientist, William S Middleton Veterans Memorial Hospital
Professor of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: Keeping weight off is hard due to physical and behavioral factors. When people lose weight, their metabolism slows down a bit, making it difficult to keep off the weight. It is also difficult to keep off the weight because people don’t continually engage in behavioral skills such weighing yourself regularly. Our study focused on the behavioral component of weight loss maintenance.
After losing an average of 16 pounds initially, the maintenance group regained less than 2 pounds (net weight loss around 14 pounds), whereas the usual care group regained more than 5 pounds (net weight loss less than 11 pounds).
MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?
Response: This study showed that we can modestly reduce the rate of weight regain using brief telephone calls that focus on skills that we believe are important for helping people keep the pounds off.
MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this study?
Response: Future research should evaluate longer-term effects of this intervention than we were able to within our grant funding period. Future research should also determine the extent to which our findings generalize to other populations, such as younger people and females. Finally, future research could evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention following other weight loss interventions such as bariatric surgery.
The grant was funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Service (Grant IIR 11-040). I have no conflicts to disclose.
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Last Updated on April 6, 2017 by Marie Benz MD FAAD