An intervention that focuses on weight control rather than weight loss works better for socioeconomically disadvantaged black women in preventing weight gain, researchers from Duke University reported in JAMA Internal Medicine. The authors explained that encouraging African-American women to lose weight has generally been ineffective. As background information, the investigators wrote "black women have higher rates of body weight satisfaction, fewer social pressures to lose weight, and sociocultural norms that tolerate heavier body weights." Principal investigator, Gary G...
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