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Evaluation of meal replacements and a home food environment intervention for long-term weight loss: a randomized controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, January 2018
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Title
Evaluation of meal replacements and a home food environment intervention for long-term weight loss: a randomized controlled trial
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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, January 2018
DOI 10.1093/ajcn/nqx005
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Michael R Lowe, Meghan L Butryn, Fengqing Zhang

Abstract

Lifestyle change treatments for weight loss produce medically meaningful weight reductions, but lost weight is usually regained. Meal replacements (MRs) represent one avenue for improving long-term weight loss. Another, nutrition-focused approach involves having participants make specific changes in the energy density, composition, and structure of the foods in their personal food environments. Three conditions were compared: behavior therapy (BT), BT plus MRs (BT+MR), and a nutrition-focused treatment aimed at modifying the home food environment (HFE). Overweight and obese individuals (n = 262) were randomly assigned to 1 of the 3 conditions. Treatment occurred in weekly groups for 6 mo and in biweekly groups for 6 mo. Assessments were conducted at baseline and at 6, 12, 18, 24, and 36 mo. Multilevel models were used to estimate weight-change trajectories for each participant and to examine the treatment group effect on long-term weight loss. A multilevel analysis indicated that all 3 groups showed significant weight loss over 12 mo that was gradually regained to the 36-mo follow-up. Mean ± SD percentages of baseline weight loss at 12 mo for BT, BT+MR, and HFE were 9.41% ± 7.92%, 10.37% ± 7.77%, and 10.97% ± 7.79%, respectively. Comparable percentages at 36 mo were 4.21% ± 8.64%, 3.06% ± 6.93%, and 4.49% ± 7.83%. Those in the HFE condition lost more weight than those receiving BT through the 36-mo assessment (P < 0.01), as reflected in 2 treatment × time interactions. Further analyses showed that HFE produced the largest increases in cognitive restraint and that this increase largely mediated the HFE group's improved weight loss. The nutrition-focused intervention studied here produced modestly greater long-term weight loss than BT, an effect that was largely explainable by an unexpected boost in cognitive restraint in this condition. This study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01065974.

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Unknown 138 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 22 16%
Student > Master 21 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 9%
Other 5 4%
Student > Postgraduate 5 4%
Other 23 17%
Unknown 50 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 28 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 4%
Sports and Recreations 6 4%
Other 22 16%
Unknown 52 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 109. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 June 2022.
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#6
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