Cleveland Clinic ran a study with their Lifestyle 180 program.
Participants had at least one of 8 chronic conditions (obesity,
hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty
liver disease, multiple sclerosis, early stage breast or
prostate cancer. An initial 48 hours of lessons curriculum was
taught twice per week, in four-hour sessions each over the first
six weeks, called an Immersion Phase. During this period, the
first four-hour session of the week was divided into 60 minutes
of participant physical activity and 90 minutes of participant
cooking and nutrition as well as stress management classes,
while during the second session of the week, 60 minutes period
was devoted to participant exercise and practice of
cooking/nutrition, stress management and biometric one-on-one
sessions each. The follow-up phase included three components to
help maintain behavioral changes. These included 1) on-site
classes at weeks 10, 18 and 30 that followed the same four-hour
structure as occurred during the Immer