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Weighing the options : criteria for evaluating weight-management programs

Title
  1. Weighing the options : criteria for evaluating weight-management programs / Committee to Develop Criteria for Evaluating the Outcomes of Approaches to Prevent and Treat Obesity, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine ; Paul R. Thomas, editor.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.

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Additional authors
  1. Thomas, Paul R., 1953-
  2. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Develop Criteria for Evaluating the Outcomes of Approaches to Prevent and Treat Obesity
Description
  1. xii, 282 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Reducing diets > Evaluation
  2. Weight loss
  3. Diet, Reducing
  4. Weight Loss
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction and Background -- 2. The Nature and Problem of Obesity -- 3. Programs for and Approaches to Treating Obesity -- 4. Weighing the Options -- 5. Criterion 1: The Match Between Program and Consumer -- 6. Criterion 2: The Soundness and Safety of the Program -- 7. Criterion 3: Outcomes of the Program -- 8. Weighing the Options: Application of Committee's Criteria -- 9. Prevention of Obesity -- 10. Research and Policy Recommendations -- App. A: Assessment Instruments of Relevance to Obesity Treatment -- App. B: The Diet Readiness Test and the General Well-Being Schedule -- App. C: Pediatric Obesity / Beatrice S. Kanders -- App. D: Accrediting Providers of Weight-Management Services / Arthur Frank -- App. E: Biographies of Committee Members.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-270) and index.