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Obesity - Management
Goals
- Weight management with risk-factor reduction (i.e. reduction of the risks that obesity carries for conditions such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer), rather than major weight loss
- Modest, sustainable weight loss
- Ideally, the eventual body mass index (BMI) should be less than 25 kg/m2, but this should not be set as a goal unless it is thought to be realistically achievable
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