Obesity: Overview of an Epidemic

Mitchell, Nia S.; Catenacci, Victoria A.; Wyatt, Holly R.; Hill, James O.

doi:10.1016/j.psc.2011.08.005

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“…[1] In the United Kingdom (UK), from which the data used in this paper emerge, and as noted in current National Health Service (NHS) guidelines on 'Identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in children, young people and adults' [2] , over one quarter of all adults were classed as clinically obese by 2013. This upward trend is placing increasing pressures on national healthcare systems [3] in two key ways.…”

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Obesity, heuristic reasoning and the organisation of communicative embarrassment in diagnostic radiography

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Usage of any items from the University of Cumbria's institutional repository 'Insight' must conform to the following fair usage guidelines.Any item and its associated metadata held in the University of Cumbria's institutional repository Insight (unless stated otherwise on the metadata record) may be copied, displayed or performed, and stored in line with the JISC fair dealing guidelines (available here) for educational and not-for-profit activities provided that• the authors, title and full bibliographic details of the item are cited clearly when any part of the work is referred to verbally or in the written form when equipment is inadequate or multiple exposures are necessary. It is concluded that, while participants largely expected any interaction about obesity with a patient to be embarrassing for both parties, their actual experience was much more varied. This indicates a more complex communicative environment than may be expected, and also a potential metacognitive availability heuristic in play -something that might be clarified with future quantitative investigation.

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“…In consequence, after 24 months it was higher than or equal to the weight from the first examination in 6 individuals (4.7%), while the percentage of the amount of adipose tissue after 24 months from the commencement of the treatment was higher compared with the amount in the first examination in 10 (7.8%) subjects. Several authors emphasise that maintaining a reduced body mass after the completion of weight loss poses a much greater problem than the weight loss process itself [5][6][7][8][9]. Coughlin et al [16] showed that after 30 months from the intervention, a continuation of the weight loss program for another 30 months turned out not to have any additional benefits.…”

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“…A significant number of patients trying to lose weight, sooner or later, experience the yo-yo effect [5]. Several authors indicate that maintaining a reduced body mass after the weight loss phase is a much more serious problem than weight loss itself [6][7][8][9].…”

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Changes in body mass during weight loss treatment – a two-year prospective study

Krekora-Wollny¹,

Suliga²

2017

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Introduction: A reduction of 5% to 10% of body mass is related to a significantly lower risk of the occurrence of conditions whose underlying cause is obesity. Aim of the research: The analysis of body mass and body composition changes in overweight and obese patients undergoing weight loss treatment. Material and methods: A total of 129 overweight and obese individuals qualified for the study. All patients were instructed to follow a healthy, balanced diet based on the nutritional standards. The patients were subjected to anthropometric measurements and body composition tests by means of bioimpedance analysis. The analysis included measurements performed 3, 6, 12, and 24 months after the first appointment. One-factor analysis of variance was applied to test the changes of body mass and composition in the following months. Results: The average body mass index of the patients decreased on consequent follow-up appointments from 33.8 ±5.17 kg/m

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“…Although efforts to address environmental factors/behaviours contributing to obesity are underway (Mitchell et al, 2011), research has highlighted the importance of addressing the internal determinants of dysfunctional eating behaviours in the prevention and treatment of obesity (Buckroyd and Rother, 2008). …”

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PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF EMOTIONAL EATING: THE ROLE OF ATTACHMENT, PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISTRESS, LOVE ATTITUDES and PERCEIVED HUNGER

Stapleton¹,

Mackay²

2014

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The present study aimed to investigate the psychological determinants of emotional eating in a national and international sample of healthy weight, overweight and obese adults (N = 226). Specifically, attachment styles, psychopathological symptom distress and love attitudes were explored for their ability to predict emotional eating. Findings supported the suggestion symptom distress may particularly predispose individuals to engaging in emotionally motivated overeating, with a large effect size observed. Preoccupied attachment was also a significant predictor of emotion eating, even after controlling for state-based inferences. However, there were no significant contributions of secure, fearful-avoidant, or dismissiveavoidant attachment style in the prediction of emotional eating. Similarly, none of the five primary love languages (e.g., words of affirmation, physical touch, receiving gifts and physical touch) accounted for a significant amount of variance in emotional eating. A mediating role of perceived hunger in the prediction of emotional eating from attachment-anxiety was also observed. Contributions and limitations of the present study, as well as recommendations for future research are also discussed.

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Obesity: Overview of an Epidemic

Cited by 385 publications

References 63 publications

Obesity, heuristic reasoning and the organisation of communicative embarrassment in diagnostic radiography

Obesity, heuristic reasoning and the organisation of communicative embarrassment in diagnostic radiography

Changes in body mass during weight loss treatment – a two-year prospective study

PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF EMOTIONAL EATING: THE ROLE OF ATTACHMENT, PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL SYMPTOM DISTRESS, LOVE ATTITUDES and PERCEIVED HUNGER

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