title: [Hypocaloric diets: which ones to advise/avoid?].
abstract: A hypocaloric diet, whatever the proposed type, is an inadapted treatment to chronic disease, like obesity. All diets are inefficient on the long term. The weight loss is generally small, about 1-2 kg a year. The results are the same, independently of the type of diet, and the patient's compliance is clearly the main key to succeed. About 80% of patients regain weight the first month following the diet, and only 1% can keep the obtained weight a year later. Nearly half of the patients involved in a diet program give up before the end. Finally, because of risks of macro and micro nutriments deficiency, certain diets are to be avoided and hypocaloric diet shouldn't be proposed.
authors.affiliation: Service d'endocrinologie, diabetologie et metabolisme, CHUV/PMU, Consultation d'obésité et des troubles du comportement alimentaire, 1011 Lausanne. veronique.divetta@hospvd.ch
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Di Vetta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clarisse
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Giusti
mesh_terms: D004033:Diet Fads; D004038:Diet, Reducing; D002149:Energy Intake; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000178:diet therapy*; D010349:Patient Compliance; D015431:Weight Loss