** * Fellow in Adolescent Medicine. From the Adolescent Clinic, Child Development and

In a follow-up study of 65 obese adolescents, 19 had achieved a non-obese status while 46 remained obese. Twelve adolescents maintained the weight loss initiated during clinic attendance. Obese adolescents given dietary instruction and placed on a diet were more successful at losing and maintaining their lower weight than those treated with a nondietary approach. Although nine adolescents lost weight who had not received a diet, only two maintained this weight loss and none achieved a nonobese status. Group treatment did not ap-pear to produce better long-term results than individual treatment. WITH respect to attempts at weight re-duction with adolescents, it is generally be-lieved that initial responses are fair if motiva-tion is high, but that relapses are common and that long-term successes are few. Obese adolescents may show improvement in othe