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DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27302005000200019
Obesity is the most common expression of malnutrition and its prevalence has been increasing fast in Brazil. The Internet – though still underused – can be an useful tool in treating obesity through behavioral techniques. The purpose of the present paper was to assess the use of the Internet for obesity treatment in a sample of adults of Lagoa dos Três Cantos, RS, where 58.6% of the population reported a BMI over 25kg/m2. All overweight individuals (n= 532) were submitted […]
Keywords: body mass index; internet; Prevalence of obesity; weight loss