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Overweight and Depression [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Health and Social Behavior, 1994
Is being overweight distressing? If it is, is the distress due to negative appraisals by others, to the stresses of trying to fit norms of thinness by dieting, or to the health consequences of being overweight? If being overweight is stigmatizing, negative evaluations by others may be internalized as high levels of depression. This perspective predicts
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Obesity and Overweight [PDF]

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e w id r as e, se er t st al h r Overweight or obesity in adolescents has reache epidemic proportions in the USA and other industr alized countries. These conditions, although ofte lumped together in research and in commentarie reflect adolescents’ being toward the heavier point a continuum that would range from underweight morbidly obese.
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Living With Overweight

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 1989
Aided by nurses using the belief clarification approach to intervention, a group of 20 females participated in eight structured sessions that addressed their beliefs and attitudes about being overweight. One participant redefined her negative experience into a more positive and realistic one that included recognizing additional sources of stress that ...
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The Overweight Epidemic

Pediatric Annals, 2004
Large-scale communal and societal issues must be addressed before effective prevention of overweight can be achieved.
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Adenotonsillectomy and the Development of Overweight

Pediatrics, 2009
OBJECTIVE. Studies among patients have shown accelerated weight gain after (adeno)tonsillectomy.* Whether (adeno)tonsillectomy is also a risk factor for the development of overweight is unknown. We investigated the association between (adeno)tonsillectomy and the subsequent development of overweight in the general population.
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