Study finds that the directors obese weight loss are not as efficient as their leaner peers

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Some studies are more surprising than others. Fall into the category is not too surprising, the finding of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that consultants who are overweight are not as effective as their counterparts slimmer obese patients to lose weight.

In other words, the patients more susceptible to be the "practice what they preach."

Investigator Sara Bleich, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Politics and Health Management Bloomberg School teacher, took a little more academic

"Our research shows that the weight of the personal care to help in assessing their level of perceived success obese patients to lose weight," she said. "The health professionals who maintain a healthy weight feel to help in the situation better, their overweight patients achieve their weight loss and found that obese patients to help you lose weight, have more successful."

Study Details

The researchers surveyed 500 health professionals who are not physicians specializing in nutrition, nursing, mental / behavioral health, exercise and pharmaceuticals between January 20 and February 5, 2014th

Companies of all weights, the survey also relied on their ability to transmit and found that the patients are equally susceptible the right weight loss advice. But 52 percent of normal weight reported these consultants to help obese patients to clinically significant weight loss compared to 29 percent of obese councils achieve success.

The study also found that most health professionals, regardless of their weight, do not feel in a position to help patients lose weight until you are morbidly obese, suggesting missed opportunities for early intervention.

A study of 2012 bleaching on the impact of BMI on obesity care found that size matters, even when it comes to medical care for obese patients. He found that the physicians of normal weight, overweight, front / obese physicians, were more concerned with their patients recommended obesity and confident to do so.

"To understand more research, such as obesity care professionals improve issued by non-medical health care is needed, and why these groups to initiate usually not the discussion about weight control, until their patients are morbidly obese, regardless of their personal body weight" bleaching said. "In the future it will be important to increase confidence, perception and skill among health professionals in the public health problem."

The results were published online on September 4 in the journal Obesity.