The benefits of the Mediterranean diet pass on to the families of patients who follow it

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/idm-tbo030821.php

 

News Release 9-Mar-2021
Despite not participating in the programme, these people had lost an average of almost four kilos, two years after their family member started the programme
IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)

 

People living with a patient undergoing an intensive weight loss treatment also benefit from this therapy. This has been demonstrated by a team of researchers from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) along with doctors from Hospital del Mar and the CIBER on the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERObn), in collaboration with IDIAPJGol, the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV), IDIBELL, IDIBAPS and the Sant Joan de Reus University Hospital. The study has been published in the journal International Journal of Obesity.

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