Complementary and alternative therapies for weight loss.
Although many complementary therapies are promoted for the treatment of obesity, few are truly therapeutic. Evidence suggests that food containing diacylglycerol oil, acupuncture, and hypnosis are the only evidence-based complementary therapies for the treatment of obesity, and, at best, these should be used as adjuvants to the more conventional therapies of calorie restriction and exercise.
Steyer
Terrence E
TE
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 9228 Medical Plaza Drive, Charleston, SC 29406, USA. steyerte@musc.edu
Ables
Adrienne
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D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D019587:Dietary Supplements; D006705:Homeopathy; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D015431:Weight Loss