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Family Practice Vol. 16, No. 2, 196-201
© Oxford University Press 1999

Selections from Current Literature

Effects of dieting and exercise on resting metabolic rate and implications for weight management

Josephine Connolly, Theresa Romano and Marisa Patruno

Department of Family Medicine, University Hospital and Medical Center, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-8461, USA.

Received 13 August 1998; Accepted 19 November 1998.

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Introduction

The significance of the rising prevalence of obesity for morbidity and associated health care costs is clearly delineated by the United States National Institutes of Health's Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults.1 The guidelines note the following: 55% of the adult population in the United States is overweight or obese, obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death after smoking in the United States, and the total cost to society attributable to obesity-related diseases approaching 100 billion US dollars annually. The expert panel that developed the guidelines, which are available on the World Wide Web (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/), define overweight as a body mass index (weight, kilograms/[height, meters]2) of 25 to 29.9 and obesity as a body mass index of 30 and above. Many countries use this criterion. The guidelines recommend weight loss to lower blood pressure, to lower . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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