Emerging research captured in revised chapters summarizing evidence for medical nutrition therapy and pharmacotherapy
EDMONTON, October 21, 2022 – Canadian healthcare professionals who support patients living with obesity now have up-to-date information on the latest evidence for two important obesity treatment paradigms: medical nutrition therapy (MNT) and pharmacotherapy.
Obesity Canada and the Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons launched the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) in 2020 after an exhaustive two-year assessment of more than 500,000 peer reviewed papers. A summary of 80 clinical recommendations was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in August of 2020, becoming the journal’s top-read paper in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nineteen supplementary chapters that go into great detail on a wide range of obesity prevention and treatment issues were simultaneously published at www.obesitycanada.ca/guidelines.
The core pillars of obesity management in the CPGs include psychological/behavioural interventions, medications and bariatric surgery, for which medical nutrition therapy and physical activity …