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Promotion of Weight Loss by Health-Care Professionals: Implications for Influencing Weight Loss/Control Behaviors

American Journal of Health Promotion, 2016
Purpose: Despite evidence demonstrating that health-care providers (HCPs) can effectively promote health behaviors and weight loss among their patients, the extent to which HCPs promote weight loss among overweight and obese adults is not fully understood as the studies on this topic have mostly been conducted in convenience samples.
Paul D, Loprinzi, Robert E, Davis
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The adoption of eating behaviors conducive to weight loss

Eating Behaviors, 2000
Given the plethora of eating behavior techniques that obese individuals might adopt for weight loss, it is not likely that they could, or would be willing to, adopt all of them. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the specific eating behaviors conducive to weight loss adopted during the behavioral treatment of obesity, and to ...
B B, Qi, K E, Dennis
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Behaviors and motivations for weight loss in children and adolescents: Weight Loss Behaviors and Motivations in Children

2016
Examine the association between weight loss behaviors and motivations for weight loss in children and adolescents and the association of weight status with these behaviors and motivations in a nationally representative sample.
Skinner, Asheley Cockrell   +3 more
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Behavioral aspects of weight loss in type 2 diabetes

Current Diabetes Reports, 2008
Recent research has clearly shown that lifestyle intervention can reduce the risk of diabetes in those with impaired glucose tolerance; weight reduction appears to be the primary determinant of this effect. Weight loss can also improve glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in those with diabetes; however, the long-term impact of weight loss ...
Rena R, Wing, Becky, Marquez
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Promoting Behavioral Weight Loss and Physical Activity

2022
Obesity and insufficient physical activity represent ongoing pandemics. These cases describe the design process of two different electronic and mobile health interventions in the areas of behavioral weight loss and physical activity promotion. An interdisciplinary team of experts followed several guidelines of an established intervention framework to ...
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The Maintenance of Weight Loss After Behavioral Treatment

Behavior Modification, 1990
This article reviews the recent empirical literature on the behavioral treatment of obesity in an attempt to delineate those variables that are most closely related to the posttreatment maintenance of weight loss. Such variables were found to fall into three general categories: adherence to treatment and use of behavioral skills, posttreatment ...
S A, Westover, R I, Lanyon
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Eating behaviors as predictors of weight loss in a 6 month weight loss intervention.

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 2014
To examine associations between eating behavior constructs and weight loss (WL) in a 6-month WL intervention in worksites.A cluster-randomized controlled trial of a group behavioral WL intervention versus wait-listed control was conducted at four worksites.
Payal, Batra   +7 more
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Extreme Weight Loss Behaviors in Racially Diverse Urban Adolescents

Journal of Adolescent Health, 2019
Extreme weight loss behaviors (EWLBs) pose a serious health risk to adolescents. Studies suggest a link between EWLBs and other health-compromising behaviors. Extending these findings, this study examines correlates of EWLB in a predominantly minority adolescent population.A secondary analysis of EWLB data from adolescents in an inner city pediatric ...
Susan Kelly-Weeder, Barbara E. Wolfe
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Some Health-Risk Benefits of Behavioral Weight-Loss Treatments

Psychological Reports, 1987
This study reports assessment of some beneficial effects of behavioral weight-control treatments on measures of cardiovascular health. 31 women participated for each experiment. In Exp. 1, a 12-wk. dietary program resulted in mean reductions of 5.3 kg of weight, including 4.2 kg of fat, 24% in HDL-cholesterol and 11.95 mg/dl in Total Cholesterol, but ...
W M, Beneke, B F, Timson
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