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Record W4401213521 · doi:10.18103/mra.v12i7.5425

Managing obesity with lifestyle modification, outcomes, and recommendations

2024· article· en· W4401213521 on OpenAlex
Niyi Araromi, Chibuzor Okoronkwo, Okechukwu C Erinne, Tinuade Dada, Ifeoluwa Falade, Beloveth Annonye, Abieyuwa B Agada, Rita K Okobi, Okelue E Okobi, Emmanuel Akpamgbo, Okiemute Obodo

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Bibliographic record

VenueMedical Research Archives · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicObesity and Health Practices
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta HospitalAlberta Hospital Edmonton
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLifestyle modificationObesityMedicineGerontologyInternal medicine

Abstract

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Introduction: Obesity is a chronic illness affecting people from all regions and socioeconomic classes. Body Mass Index (BMI) is the measure used to define overweight and obese individuals. A BMI between 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight and more than 30 is considered obese. The prevalence of obesity has increased drastically in the last few decades making it an important health problem worldwide. Objectives: The objective of this research paper is to identify various recent scholarly sources that focus on the importance of lifestyle modifications in the prevention of obesity and associated illnesses. Methods: The articles were searched using databases such as PubMed, NCBI, UpToDate, BMJ, and other sources. The keywords used were obesity, overweight, lifestyle modifications, dietary modifications, exercise, modifiable factors, and other related words. Articles published after 2000, those with a high number of citations, larger sample size, experimental evidence, and done in larger institutes were selected. Results: The studies provided evidence that lifestyle modifications as the most important factor in the reduction of overweight and obesity. Dietary modifications such as low-calorie, low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean diet, etc., done regularly or intermittently helped in weight loss. Exercise and physical activity were identified as the second-best interventions for weight management. Additionally, behavior and cognitive therapy is another intervention. The research paper also identifies outcomes of lifestyle modifications and the challenges and barriers faced by individuals. Conclusion: Obesity can be successfully reduced by modification of dietary habits, improving patient-physician relationships, educating the masses about management strategies, and most importantly, inculcating more physical activity in daily life.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.800
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.155
GPT teacher head0.554
Teacher spread0.399 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it