Complementary and alternative therapies for weight loss.

Steyer, Terrence E; Ables, Adrienne · Prim Care · 2009

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Abstract

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.

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