Managing Obesity
Tags: PRIMARY care (Medicine); OBESITY; BODY weight; METABOLISM -- Disorders; NUTRITION disorders; OVERWEIGHT persons; HEALTH risk assessment; BODY mass index; FAMILY medicine
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- Impact of cumulative area-based adverse socioeconomic environment on body mass index and overweight. Regidor, E.; Guti�rrez-Fisac, J.L.; Ronda, E.; Calle, M.E.; Mart�nez, D.; Dom�nguez, V. // Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health;Mar2008, Vol. 62 Issue 3, p231
Objective: Although the relationship between area socioeconomic environment and obesity is known, previous research has measured area socioeconomic environment at only one point in time. This study evaluates the relationship of cumulative area-based adverse socioeconomic environment with body...
- Comparative study of instruments for the analysis of body composition in a sample of the Brazilian population. Mialich, M. S.; Martinez, E. Z.; Jord�o Jr., A. A. // International Journal of Body Composition Research;2011, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p19
Objective: To assess the body composition of three different groups classified according to body mass index (BMI) (underweight, normal weight and overweight) using two electric impedance instrument and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Methods: The study was conducted on 30 men older than...
- Are There Public Health Lessons That Can Be Used to Help Prevent Childhood Obesity? Eriksen, Michael // Health Education Research;Dec2006, Vol. 21 Issue 6, p753
This article presents essays on childhood obesity. Article topics include the increasing rates of childhood obesity, issues and controversies surrounding the epidemic, and public health lessons. Additionally, obesity prevention programs for children and youths, the connection between habitual...
- Association of Body Mass and Brain Activation during Gastric Distention: Implications for Obesity. Tomasi, Dardo; Gene-Jack Wang; Ruiliang Wang; Backus, Walter; Geliebter, Allan; Telang, Frank; Jayne, Millar C.; Wong, Christopher; Fowler, Joanna S.; Volkow, Nora D. // PLoS ONE;2009, Vol. 4 Issue 8, p1
Background: Gastric distention (GD), as it occurs during meal ingestion, signals a full stomach and it is one of the key mechanisms controlling food intake. Previous studies on GD showed lower activation of the amygdala for subjects with higher body mass index (BMI). Since obese subjects have...
- Effects of Being Overweight. Stewart, Anita L.; Brook, Robert H. // American Journal of Public Health;Feb1983, Vol. 73 Issue 2, p171
Abstract: Based on cross sectional dab, from a general population of 5.817 people aged 14 to 61. objective overweight is compared with perceived overweight, and information is provided on morbidity due to being overweight, and on what people are doing to try to lose weight. We found that 10 per...
- How Accurate Are Systems that Evaluate Fatness in Teens? // Eating Disorders Review;Jan/Feb2005, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p5
Reports on the use of body mass index (BMI) for the classification of adult overweight and obesity. Limitation on the use of BMI among children; Proposal on the recommendation of a separate international classification systems to measure childhood and adolescent obesity; Purpose of the...
- The behaviour change wheel: A new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions. Michie, Susan; van Stralen, Maartje M.; West, Robert // Implementation Science;2011, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p42
Background: Improving the design and implementation of evidence-based practice depends on successful behaviour change interventions. This requires an appropriate method for characterising interventions and linking them to an analysis of the targeted behaviour. There exists a plethora of...
- Study finds Americans Are Heavier Than Ever -- And Don't Know It. // Food Management;Jun2006, Vol. 41 Issue 6, p86
The article discusses the findings of a 2006 Nutritional DiningStyles research on the increasing number of Americans ho are clinically obese. The average body mass index of American adults is approaching the clinically obese levels. The perception of those who are clinically obese do not match...
- Obesity Epidemic. // New Mexico Nurse;Oct-Dec2005, Vol. 50 Issue 4, p11
The article focuses on the problem of obesity in the U.S. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States! According to the U.S. Census Bureau's "Statistical Abstract of the United States 2004," 58 percent of people age 18 and older were above a healthy weight and 23 percent were...
