University of Cincinnati Researcher Claims Your Workplace is a Good Place to Lose Weight
Posted on July 05, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
Office-based weight-loss programs are at least partially effective at helping workers drop extra pounds, said a University of Cincinnati researcher.
Such programs have “enormous potential” to make a dent in America’s obesity epidemic, said Michael Benedict, a pediatrics and internal medicine specialist at UC.
“Work sites have the advantage in many ways,” Benedict said. “You’ve got a captive population. You can continually reinforce the program, and you’ve got repeated opportunities to contact your participants with education and reinforcement messages.”
He teamed up with a researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle to review previously published research on work-based weight-loss programs from 1994 to the present. [Have you read the Fat Loss for Idiots Guide?]
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