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Obese binge eating women had no weight loss with diet or non-diet therapies

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.2.1.17

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    Goodrick GK, Poston II WSC, Kimball KT, et al.Nondieting versus dieting treatment for overweight binge-eating women.J Consult Clin Psychol1998 Apr;66:363–8OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Question In women who are overweight and binge eat, is a non-dieting intervention as effective as a behavioural dieting intervention?

    Design

    Randomised controlled trial with follow up at 6 and 18 months.

    Setting

    Texas, USA.

    Patients

    219 women between 25–50 years of age (mean age 40 y, 85% white) who responded to media advertisements and were 14–41 kg overweight; scored >20 on the Binge Eating Scale (BES); had no history of diabetes, cardiovascular, or gastrointestinal diseases; had no purging behaviour within the previous 6 months; were not pregnant or breast feeding; had physician clearance for a walking regimen; were not enrolled in another weight loss programme; and did not smoke.

    Intervention

    Women were allocated to dieting treatment (DT) (n=79), non-dieting treatment (NDT) (n=78), or to a waiting list control (WLC) group (n=62). Participants in the 2 treatment groups attended 24 weekly 1 hour group sessions led by a psychotherapist and a dietitian and …

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    Footnotes

    • Sources of funding: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and American Heart Association and its Puerto Rican Affiliate.

    • For correspondence: Dr G K Goodrick, Behavioral Medicine Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, 6535 Fannin, Mailstop F-700, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Fax +1 713 798 4888.