Old-school paper handouts on par with weight loss phone app

“Effective weight loss intervention for young adults that can be implemented efficiently and broadly may require the scalability of mobile technology, the social support and human interaction of personal coaching, an adaptive approach to intervention design, and more personally tailored approaches,” Dr. Svetkey and colleagues concluded.

The study was sponsored by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Dr. Svetkey reported consulting for the Oregon Center for Applied Science. One coauthor disclosed serving as a consultant for Gilead Sciences and another is a scientific advisory board member for Nutrisystem and owns shares in Scale Down, a digital weight loss vendor.

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