Regulating Eating News Today

People who are highly responsive to food lost more weight and, importantly, were more successful at keeping the pounds off using a new alternative weight-loss intervention that targets improving a person's response to internal hunger cues and their ability to resist food, reported a team led by University of California San Diego experts in the May 18, 2022 online issue of JAMA Network Open.

Patients highly sensitive to food cues may benefit from a behavioral therapy, a trial hints. However, the intervention is labor-intensive and associated with modest weight loss, two experts point out.