Hundreds of hospitals, as well as clinics, around the United States and Canada are promoting an alternative solution to weight loss through a nutritious liquid diet known as Optifast for treatment to severely obese patients.
Function
The Optifast diet is provided as a solution to control the calorie content that obese patients consume daily so that they drop significant amounts of weight and maintain the loss.
Time Frame
The length of time involved in achieving the weight loss side effects of the Optifast program is 26 weeks and involves various program stages.
Benefits
The extreme weight loss effects within the 26-week program provides significant health benefits to the patients such as reversal of sleep apnea and other health ailments.
Potential
Although Optifast is an extreme weight loss method, it provides patients with the knowledge of re-learning eat as well as learn portion control to maintain weight loss.
Warning
Close physician supervision is required during the first 18 weeks of the Optifast program because fast weight loss is not healthy for all individuals and poses health risks.
