Decision-Making in Health and Fitness

Maffetone, Philip; Laursen, Paul B.

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2019.00006

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“…Of the people with an average BMI, around 50% has a percentage of body fat that is too high for their age and gender [26] and 30% is metabolically unhealthy [27] . It is known that high body fat and not so much high body weight is associated with an increased risk for cardio-metabolic disease [28] . The relatively simple DXA measures for (abdominal) fat mass would then better be able to identify people with high cardiometabolic risk.…”

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Lifestyle-intervention-induced reduction of abdominal fat is reflected by a decreased circulating glycerol level and an increased HDL diameter

Beekman

Schutte

Akker

et al. 2019

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SCOPEAbdominal obesity is one of the main modifiable risk factors of age-related cardiometabolic disease. Cardiometabolic disease risk and its associated high abdominal fat mass, high cholesterol and glucose concentrations can be reduced by a healthier lifestyle. Hence, our aim is to understand the relation between lifestyle-induced changes in body composition, and specifically abdominal fat, and accompanying changes in circulating metabolic biomarkers.Methods and resultsWe used the data from the Growing Old Together (GOTO) study, in which 164 older adults (mean age 63 years, BMI 23-35 kg/m2) changed their lifestyle during 13 weeks by 12.5% caloric restriction plus 12.5% increase in energy expenditure. We show that levels of circulating metabolic biomarkers, even after adjustment for body mass index, specifically associate with abdominal fat mass. Next, we show that the applied lifestyle intervention mainly reduces abdominal fat mass (−2.6%, SD=3.0) and that this reduction, when adjusted for general weight loss, is highly associated with decreased circulating glycerol concentrations and increased HDL diameter.ConclusionsThe lifestyle-induced reduction of abdominal fat mass is particularly associated, independent of body mass index or general weight loss, with associated with decreased circulating glycerol concentrations and increased HDL diameter.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lifestyle-intervention-induced reduction of abdominal fat is reflected by a decreased circulating glycerol level and an increased HDL diameter

Beekman

Schutte

Akker

et al. 2019

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“…slower, rational, information-based, more reliable and maintainable mental processing). Concerning contemporary health behaviour, some [36] consider System 1 the dominant system in modern societies for making decisions about health and fitness. When potential differences between practice and theory come into the picture, we might, once again, want to take into account the observations of Tversky and Kahneman [4] about heuristicsnamely, that one of our most common heuristics (trial and error) is related to experience-based problem solving, not reliance on theory.…”

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Seeing is believing? The pivotal role of personal experience in contemporary health behaviour: A narrative review

Kapitány-Fövény

2022

DHS

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In the age of people aspiring after sense experiences, encouraging long-term health behaviour changes to prevent future disorders that are, without previous personal experiences, unimaginable threats for the public, maybe one of the greatest challenges preventive medicine has to face. In order to become trusted sources, and influence public health behaviour in an experience-oriented manner, we need to formulate strategies offering emotionally evocative sense inputs that elicit self-relatedness. The current narrative review discusses the relevance of personal experiences in contemporary health behaviour by focusing on three major areas: 1) the importance of personal sources of health-related information, 2) cognitive and neurobiological background of personal experiences, 3) potential strategies to induce health behaviour changes through personal experiences. Based on the reviewed body of knowledge, three potential “rules” are proposed to increase the effectiveness of health promotion programs through sense or personal experiences: 1) Rule of Senses (stressing the importance of multisensory learning); 2) Rule of Affect (emphasizing the motivational significance of evoking positive emotions); and 3) Rule of Self-relatedness (highlighting the role of the self-referential composition of human experiences).

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“…Upon further investigation, the subject's identity played a crucial role in how they perceived their life situation [5]. Most individuals are unable to change the external demands put upon them and consequently seek out solutions that are finite and lasting rather than a quick fix [6]. The lasting solution included a deep dive into the subconscious mind of the subject to understand the lens from where they were viewing their life.…”

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The Online Professor Today: From Isolation and Depression to Connected and Thriving

Reeley

Tongue²,

Reeley

2021

IJBMR

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The online professor today is part of a high-risk group of workers experiencing adverse physical and mental symptoms that were unknown a decade ago. Depression, isolation, divorce, diabetes, antisocial behavior, PTSD, chronic pain, and even suicide is among crises happening now within this population segment once highly revered, yet few studies exist that determine how quickly the declination is occurring and if remedies from mainstream healthcare professionals are being offered; and if so, the degree of healing. Amelioration is often approached from an opposite perspective--meaning, change the behavior and the mindset change follows suit, as modeled by Alcoholics Anonymous, Weight Watchers, and Kaplan. New research, innovation, and application shows there is a surprising disconnect for achieving long-term and fulfilling change, in contrast to practiced methods in conventional healthcare. Subsequently, this research posits that change begins first with the mind, and after we better understand how identities and beliefs produce automated habits, behaviors once hazardous can be transformed into health and happiness.

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Decision-Making in Health and Fitness

Cited by 10 publications

References 28 publications

Lifestyle-intervention-induced reduction of abdominal fat is reflected by a decreased circulating glycerol level and an increased HDL diameter

Lifestyle-intervention-induced reduction of abdominal fat is reflected by a decreased circulating glycerol level and an increased HDL diameter

Seeing is believing? The pivotal role of personal experience in contemporary health behaviour: A narrative review

The Online Professor Today: From Isolation and Depression to Connected and Thriving

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