BALTIMORE, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- About 40 percent of obese patients enrolled in two counselor-enhanced weight-loss programs lost at least 5 percent of their body weight, U.S. researchers found.
Dr. Lawrence J. Appel of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues recruited 415 obese people -- predominantly middle-age women -- with an average body mass index of 36.6 and an average weight of 229 pounds.