Pharmacy weight loss

November 7, 2011

PHARMACY-based weight loss offerings were the least effective of all interventions in a study of slimming programs published in the British Medical Journal last week. The ‘Lighten Up’ study compared programs such as Weight Watchers, Slimming World and Rosemary Conley with one-to-one counselling conducted by GPs and pharmacists, and found that those undergoing pharmacy treatments saw a one year BMI reduction of 0.31 - just a quarter of the 1.17 experienced by those in Weight Watchers. 470 people participated in the scheme, which also found that the commercial programs were much more cost effective for the UK government than pharmacy or GP weight loss schemes. Almost a third of those studied in the Weight Watchers program achieved a clinically important 5% body weight reduction after a year.

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