Diabetes Care, Vol 16, Issue 1 193-199, Copyright © 1993 by American Diabetes Association
Behavioral treatment of obesity. Its application to type II diabetes
RR Wing
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania.
This review describes the improvements made in the behavioral treatment of
obesity from the 1970s to the present, and then provides a comparable
overview of progress that has been made in the behavioral treatment of
obese patients with type II diabetes by Wing et al. (13-19) at the
University of Pittsburgh. Evidence is presented to show that structured
exercise, VLCDs, and intensification of treatment programs may be useful in
improving the long-term outcome of behavioral weight-loss interventions.