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The Management of ObesityPatient Self-Help and Medical Treatment
Albert Stunkard, MD;
Harold Levine;
Sonja Fox
Arch Intern Med. 1970;125(6):1067-1072.
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Health care needs of this country have increased so rapidly that they have already far outdistanced the supply of physicians and medical facilities. A major response to the current crisis in health care has been reorganization of traditional systems of delivery of medical care, together with a greatly increased use of paramedical personnel. In the face of our pressing health needs, one source of assistance has received curiously little attention, the self-help group. Perhaps the most widely known of these groups is Alcoholics Anonymous, but individuals have organized to help themselves with problems as varied as psychosis, ileostomy, and narcotics addiction. This report deals with Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), one of two large and rapidly growing national organizations for the control of obesity. The other such organization (Weight Watchers), although it is a commercial venture and thus not strictly a self-help group, is also worthy of careful study.
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Author Affiliations
Philadelphia
From the departments of psychiatry (Dr. Stunkard and Mrs. Fox) and anthropology (Mr. Levine), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Footnotes
Received for publication Feb 13, 1970; accepted Feb 19.
Read in part before the Eighth International Congress of Nutrition, Prague, Aug 30, 1969.
Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, 205 Piersol Bldg, 36th and Spruce streets, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia 19104 (Dr. Stunkard).
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