The treatment of obesity

Created: Oct 1, 1987
Modified:
March 1996, January 2005 (retitled) Reviewed November 2010

It is the position of the North Carolina Medical Board that the cornerstones of the treatment of obesity are diet (caloric control) and exercise. Medications and surgery should only be used to treat obesity when the benefits outweigh the risks of the chosen modality.

The treatment of obesity should be based on sound scientific evidence and principles. Adequate medical documentation must be kept so that progress as well as the success or failure of any modality is easily ascertained.

[Adopted as The use of anorectics in the treatment of obesity]


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