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Weight Loss Assistance

Programs that utilize one or a variety of techniques including nutrition education, special diets, protein sparing fasting, behavior modification, exercise, hypnosis, medication, surgery, and/or individual or group therapy and mutual support groups to help obese individuals attain a more healthful body weight and develop a lifestyle that will allow them to maintain it.

Taxonomy Code: LT-950.955

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