The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a final statement recommending clinicians individualize the decision to offer behavioral counseling to adults with no CVD risk factors that will promote physical activity and a healthy diet.
Alhough there is limited evidence on the long-term effects of behavioral counseling, Carrie D. Patnode, PhD, MPH, a behavioral epidemiologist at the Kaiser Permanente Evidence-based Practice Center, and colleagues wrote in an evidence report that it is associated with “small but statistically significant benefits across a variety of important