Treatments For Obesity Are Not One-Size-Fits-All, Experts Say.

reports in a 2,800-word article that treatments for obesity are not one-size-fits-all and that “obesity and its precursor – being overweight – are not one disease but instead, like cancer, they are many.” Dr. Lee Kaplan, director of the obesity, metabolism and nutrition institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, “counts 59” types of obesity and ongoing research may well reveal more. Dr. Caroline Apovian, director of the nutrition and weight management center at Boston Medical Center, “said most people can lose weight but keeping it off is the key,” and “finding something that works ‘is still trial and error’ for most people.” Dr. Louis Aronne, an obesity medicine specialist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine Center, is featured along with the various strategies he has used to help his patients with obesity lose weight. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/health/weight-loss-obesity.html