Obesity: Quick and Easy Tools to Help Your Patients Lose Weight and Exercise

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This 60-minute, lecture-based presentation addresses healthy behavior changes for overweight or obese patients to reduce their risk for developing diabetes and cardiovascular diseases; discusses screening patients to determine if they are overweight or obese; describes metabolic syndrome and appropriate counseling and drug therapy to reduce risk factors; and identifies behavior modification, risk reduction and healthy lifestyle decisions to treat obesity.

Listen to the lecture and follow along with the slides. Submit the post-test for CME credit, free to AAFP members.

Jill Grimes, MD, is a board-certified family physician, author and media personality. Dr Grimes works at West Lake Family Practice in Austin, Texas, where she has practiced medicine since 1994. She is a 1991 graduate of Baylor College of Medicine, and is currently on faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is also an associate editor and contributing author for The 5-Minute Clinical Consult textbook.

Dr Grimes is passionate about all types of preventive medicine, and her award-winning book, Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STDs, has been adopted into Texas high schools for the fall 2010 semester. Through her Web site, blog, radio, television shows, and practice, Dr Grimes encourages individuals to take responsibility for their own health and to choose healthy lifestyle changes before relying on medications.

It is the policy of the American Academy of Family Physicians that all CME planning committee/faculty/authors/editors/staff disclose their relationships with commercial entities upon nomination/invitation of participation. Disclosure documents are reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, they are resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those participants who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this CME activity. Dr Grimes has confirmed that she has no such affiliations or financial interests to disclose.

The AAFP uses an anonymous peer review process to evaluate the content of CME activities. This process ensures a clear identification and resolution of any potential conflicts of interest, and guarantees the fairness and balance of the content.

The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent those of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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Credit Statement -- This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 1.0 Prescribed credit(s).

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Take the Post-Test -- AAFP members only.