A new perspective to long-term weight management. Is there a better way?
BACKGROUND
To manage the increasing rate of excess weight and obesity, individual health care providers and many health promotion programs have focused on encouraging people to lose weight, and/or achieve a certain weight, for optimal health. The focus has been on the person's weight, in other words, on the 'end point'.


OBJECTIVE
This article provides a theoretical background to the need to think of the issue of weight management in a new way.


CONCLUSIONS
In an environment that has been described as 'obesogenic', past and current strategies have not succeeded in creating positive change. The time has come for a new 'process orientated', more holistic focus.
Kausman
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Melbourne Weight Management and Eating Behaviour Clinic, Victoria.
D001835:Body Weight; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013997:Time Factors; D015431:Weight Loss