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CommonHealth: JAMA Analysis Finds Losing Weight The Hard Way Still Looks Like The Best Way
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The journal JAMA Internal Medicine is just out with an up-to-date analysis of options for treating obesity, accompanied by editor Fiona Clement’s vivid personal account of her own struggles with weight. The conclusion she draws from the latest data: “After much thought and brutal honesty with myself, I would not pursue any of the interventions; the risks outweigh the benefit,” she writes. “I’m off to the gym.”
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Carey Goldberg, co-host of WBUR’s CommonHealth blog, which tweets @commonhealth.
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This segment aired on January 4, 2016.