title: A new perspective to long-term weight management. Is there a better way?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Melbourne Weight Management and Eating Behaviour Clinic, Victoria.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kausman
mesh_terms: D001835:Body Weight; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013997:Time Factors; D015431:Weight Loss