Weight management

Nutrition is an important part of maintaining a healthy body weight.

Weight management refers to behaviors, techniques, and physiological processes that contribute to a person's ability to attain and maintain a healthy weight.[1][2] Most weight management techniques encompass long-term lifestyle strategies that promote healthy eating and daily physical activity.[3] Moreover, weight management involves developing meaningful ways to track weight over time and to identify the ideal body weights for different individuals.[4]

Weight management strategies most often focus on achieving healthy weights through slow but steady weight loss, followed by maintenance of an ideal body weight.[5] However, weight neutral approaches to health have also been shown to result in positive health outcomes.[6][7]

Understanding the basic science of weight management and strategies for attaining and maintaining a healthy weight is very important because obesity is a risk factor for development of many chronic diseases, like Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.[1][5][8]

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  6. ^ Tylka TL, Annunziato RA, Burgard D, Daníelsdóttir S, Shuman E, Davis C, Calogero RM (2014). "The weight-inclusive versus weight-normative approach to health: evaluating the evidence for prioritizing well-being over weight loss". Journal of Obesity. 2014: 983495. doi:10.1155/2014/983495. PMC 4132299. PMID 25147734.
  7. ^ Bacon L, Aphramor L (January 2011). "Weight science: evaluating the evidence for a paradigm shift". Nutrition Journal. 10: 9. doi:10.1186/1475-2891-10-9. PMC 3041737. PMID 21261939.
  8. ^ Klein S, Sheard NF, Pi-Sunyer X, Daly A, Wylie-Rosett J, Kulkarni K, Clark NG (August 2004). "Weight management through lifestyle modification for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes: rationale and strategies. A statement of the American Diabetes Association, the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, and the American Society for Clinical Nutrition". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 80 (2): 257–263. doi:10.1093/ajcn/80.2.257. PMID 15277143.

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