title: The Tripler Army Medical Center LEAN Program: a healthy lifestyle model for the treatment of obesity.
abstract: This paper provides an overview of the Tripler Army Medical Center LEAN Program for the treatment of obesity, hypercholesterolemia, and essential hypertension. The LEAN Program, a multi-disciplinary prevention program, emphasizes healthy Lifestyles, Exercise and Emotions, Attitudes, and Nutrition for active duty service members. The treatment model offers a medically healthy, emotionally safe, and reasonable, low-intensity exercise program to facilitate weight loss. We will discuss the philosophy behind the LEAN Program and the major components. Thereafter, we will briefly discuss the preliminary results.
authors.affiliation: Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 96859-5000.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: James
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Folen
authors.forename: F N
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Garland
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Noce
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gohdes
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bowles
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kellar
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Supplee
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D006254:Hawaii; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008889:Military Personnel; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy*; D015397:Program Evaluation