Faculty Affiliate Loneke T. Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor of Community and Public Health Nutrition at the University of Connecticut, recently co-wrote a piece with Dr. in The ConversationĀ discussing weight loss interventions based on lifestyle changes for Black women.
In wondering why scientists have been unable to craft a lifestyle-based weight loss solution that works for Black women, Carr and Barlow reviewed 10 years of research on weight loss interventions based on lifestyle changes. They found that only a few studies focused on Black women, and those that did often resulted in only small amounts of weight loss and were inconsistent in how they approached weight loss.
If health care providers and researchers begin listening to and working with Black women to redesign weight loss interventions, they will likely find that their efforts at addressing obesity among Black women are more effective.”
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