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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Secondary Prevention

Counseling

A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials concluded that "compared with usual care, dietary counseling interventions produce modest weight losses that diminish over time."