Effectiveness of Obesity Management Interventions on Adults

Introduction

Obesity is one of the concerns of the health organizations around the world. Both children and adults, and men and women are affected of this disease. From the previous years, the obesity became a natural topic in health care because of this obvious presence in the population. Apparently, there is no specific cause of obesity but there are factors that might contribute in its existence. The inappropriate meals, unbalanced diet, and lifestyle are the typical causes of obesity as according to the experts. Moreover, there is no specified method to cure this type of disease. Health care professionals also detected several diseases associated with the condition in obesity. The serious health cases that might involve in the obesity are the heart disease, diabetes, and even death. However, there are interventions that can be use as strategies for obesity management among adults.

On Obesity Management

Various strategies have been employed to control obesity. These include dietary advice, behavior therapy and pharmacological intervention. The caloric intake is proposed to be the one that should be controlled and it is important in predicting the weight gained by the individual. Typically, calories can be loss due to the used energy of the body but there is a significant difference of calories intake in between men and women. However, it remains a big problem to maintain the successful diet. The behavior and intention of an individual creates a tendency on how the adult will manage the diet or the therapy for obesity. The effective obesity management and the strategies associated might be temporary in weight reduction. But having the better understanding in metabolic controls of the body fat will improve the obesity management and interventions. However, at the present surgery remains the only effective option for the management of obesity (ASERNIPS, 2000).

The health care professional continuously develop the consensus guideline in managing the obesity thus, recommending the combination of the treatment interventions and interventions relating to the screening and prevention. The appropriate management of obesity is an evidence-based approach that allows that the treatment of recognized through the clinical judgment as according to the agreed necessity of an individual.

A Comprehensive Obesity Management

An effective management for obesity comprises with the appropriate weight management that will significantly create a weight loss experience with the assurance that there is a reduction on health risks. It aims to improve the health conditions of the obese individuals. Through the appropriate management and treatment, such as the modest weight loss, improvement in the nutritional content and increase in the physical activity and fitness, the ideal obesity management that is suitable for the individual can be achieved. The obesity among the adults has a high potential in involvement of health risks and complications that is why the appropriate monitoring of the weight plays a vital role.

Interventions

An effective obesity management can reduce the need to treat co-morbidities by drugs. Through the physical examination and body composition analysis, the individual can be assessed regarding the obesity problems and the level of obesity. The health care professionals will guide an individual towards the prevention of further weight gain especially on those overweight individuals. Through the provided dietary advice and increase in the physical activity, the individual can experience changes towards his target. Other than that, the management should comprise with the proper monitoring on diet, cognitive behavioral approaches, and psychological support. However, if the obesity level is too high, the surgery is advised which includes the pharmacological treatment and therapies (Tsigos, et al., 2008).

Outcomes

The use of management and intervention can be more effective by combining the two or more mechanisms of action. However, the effectiveness of many promising therapies remains unjustified because of the limitation of the studies investigating regarding the interventions. On the other hand, there is an ongoing extensive research on the behavioral weight-loss which sustains the obesity management interventions. This kind of behavioral weight-loss intervention can have an impact over the significant periods of patient’s life-span. This includes the knowledge in decision-making and behavioral changes making it possible to achieve the high quality of health care solutions through the randomized controls (Goldfarb, Yaskin, & Toner, 2008).

Conclusion

Because of the growing population of obese people, particularly in America, the people became more concern regarding their health. However, without the help of the obesity management and the determination of its effectiveness, more and more people will be diagnosed of obesity.

References:

ASERNIPS, (2000) Laparascopic Adjustable Gastric Banding for the Treatment of Obesity, Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures-Surgical [Online] Available at: https://www.surgeons.org/Content/ContentFolders/News/ASERNIPS/Systematicreviews/LABGreview0600.pdf [Accessed 30 July 2010].

Goldfarb, N., Yaskin, J., & Toner, R., (2008) The Evidence Base for Effectiveness of Obesity Management Programs: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature [Online] Available at: http://dmaa.org/theforum08/presentations/Goldfarb.pdf [Accessed 30 July 2010].

Tsigos, C., Hainer, V., Basdevant, A., Finer, N., & Fried, M., (2008) Management of Obesity in Adults: European Clinical Practice Guidelines [Online] Available at: http://www.easoobesity.org/documents/OMTFManagementofObesityinAdults2008.pdf [Accessed 30 July 2010]