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According to a new study, self-guided family therapy for obesity could work just as well as traditional approaches at a fraction of the cost.

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Councils need more support from central government to help bring down childhood obesity rates, a local authority has said.

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"Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice for Childhood Obesity Treatment," authored by Pennington Biomedical’s Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory’s Dr. Amanda Staiano and Dr.