title: [Diet treatment of obesity--weight-loss stage and weight-maintenance stage].
abstract: Dietetic treatment of obesity occurs in two phases one of weight reduction and one of stabilisation of the reduced weight. Results of the first phase are marked mainly by reduction of calories (quantitative aspect) and not by the carbohydrate or fat content of the diet (qualitative aspect). This improves assessment of individual nutritional preferences and sustains the patients motivation longer. Current recommendations propose less restrictive diets, i.e. 500 Kcal less than the daily allowance. In the second phase of stabilisation a diet rich in complete carbohydrates (> 50 of daily calories) and poor in lipids (< 30%) regulates metabolism, appetite sencurion of saturation and thermogenesis favorably. Such a diet seems to permit a prolonged stabilisation of weight, an important criterion for successful treatment of obesity. A diet rich in carbohydrates and poor in lipids symbolized by a nutritional pyramid is at the same time the basis for actual recommendations for the entire population.
authors.affiliation: Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morel
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Allaz
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: de Tonnac
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kammer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Golay
mesh_terms: D004038:Diet, Reducing; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004041:Dietary Fats; D002149:Energy Intake; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000178:diet therapy*; D015431:Weight Loss
chemical_list: D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004041:Dietary Fats