Depressed women can lose weight as successfully as others do

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 13:49 in Psychology & Sociology

Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an article in the Winter 2009 Behavioral Medicine. Group Health Research Institute Senior Research Associate Evette J. Ludman, PhD, the study leader, concluded that weight loss programs should not exclude depressed people.

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