title: Chronic obesity in a family.
abstract: Under threat by the family practice nurse and physician of future disinterest in their obesity problem, a family who had been refractory to all previous weight loss programs worked out a program based on behavior modification principles. The program that evolved provided them through their weight loss with a way of deriving pleasure from the competition with each other and from their joint dislike of the person who recorded their weight each week. All members have lost weight continuously over a three month period.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Levitt