Obesity Care

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Changes in lean body mass with glucagon-like peptide-1-based therapies and mitigation strategies (2024)

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Nutritional considerations with antiobesity medications (2024)

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Navigating the Impact of Weight Loss on Body Composition: Strategies to support the patient’s ongoing weight loss journey (A Case Discussion). (2024)

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Introduction to a range of medically-monitored OPTIFAST^® Weight Management programs

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Acceptability, Adherence, Safety and Experiences of Low Energy Diets in People With Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Mixed Methods Study

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Patient perceptions about obesity management in the context of concomitant care for other chronic diseases

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Weight regain after total meal replacement very low-calorie diet program with and with-out anti-obesity medications

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The OPTIFAST total and partial meal replacement programme reduces cardiometabolic risk in adults with obesity: Secondary and exploratory analysis of the OPTIWIN study

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Preoperative dietitian-led Very Low Calorie Diet Clinic for adults living with obesity undergoing gynaecology, laparoscopic cholecystectomy and hernia repair procedures: a pilot parallel randomised controlled trial

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Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Remission of Early Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care in Australia: DiRECT-Aus (2023)

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GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs: What are the effects and how does nutrition play a role. (2024)

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Sustaining Success: Strategies for addressing weight rebound. (2024)

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Fueling Wellness: Nutrition for patients managing GLP-1 side effects. (2024)

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Importance of lean muscle preservation during rapid weight loss with GLP-1. (2024)

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Type 2 Diabetes: Can very low energy diets help to achieve remission through weight loss? (Webinar 2023)

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Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines (2020)

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How the Optifast^® Weight Management Program Works

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Healthcare Professionals: Request for information about becoming an Optifast^® provider

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Primary care-led weight management for remission of type 2 diabetes (DiRECT): an open-label, cluster-randomised trial (2018)

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Very-low-calorie diet and 6 months of weight stability in type 2 diabetes: pathophysiologic changes in responders and nonresponders (2016)

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Effects on Diabetes Medications, Weight and Glycated Hemoglobin Among Adult Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: 6-Month Observations From a Full Meal Replacement, Low-Calorie Diet Weight Management Program (2018)

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Feasibility of a Very Low Calorie Diet to Achieve a Sustainable 10% Weight Loss in Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Diease (2020)

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Effectiveness of a Total Meal Replacement Program (OPTIFAST^® Program) on Weight Loss: Results from the OPTIWIN Study (2019)