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    Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions

    This guideline covers interventions that use a digital or mobile platform to help people eat more healthily, become more active, stop smoking, reduce their alcohol intake or practise safer sex. The interventions include those delivered by text message, apps, wearable devices or the internet. The guidelin...

    Weight management over the reproductive years for adult women with obesity

    This chapter addresses the management of weight related to three phases of a woman’s reproductive years – precon­ception, during pregnancy and postpartum – for adult wom­en with obesity. Although these reproductive periods are addressed separately, it is important to consider that these phases re...

    Obesity in adults: a clinical practice guideline

    Can. Med. Assoc. J; 192 (31), 2020
    Obesity is a complex chronic disease in which abnormal or excess body fat (adiposity) impairs health, increases the risk of long-term medical complications and reduces lifespan.1 Epidemiologic studies define obesity using the body mass index (BMI; weight/height2), which can stratify obesity-related healt...