Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obese Adults

Blackwell, James

doi:10.1111/j.1745-7599.2002.tb00113.x

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“…Physical activity may also help in reducing incidence of metabolic risk factors linked to chronic conditions and illnesses in overweight and obese individuals (WHO, ). Blackwell () reports that weight loss is important to lower elevated levels of total cholesterol and low‐density lipoprotein in overweight and obese adults. Even in the absence of weight loss it has been found that physical activity leads to improvements in risk factors associated with chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease such as cholesterol and blood pressure (Ho, Dhaliwal, Hills, & Pal, , , ; Shaw, Gennat, O'Rourke, & Mar, ).…”

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Predicting Physical Activity‐Related Outcomes in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Health Action Process Approach

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Pal

Hagger

2016

Applied Psych Health & Well

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Predicting Physical Activity‐Related Outcomes in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Health Action Process Approach

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2016

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“…Wing and Hill [ 2 ] report that weight-loss can only be achieved through a negative energy balance, decreasing energy intake by restricting food or increasing energy expenditure through daily activity. Based on current evidence, weight-loss strategies that include a combination of a reduced calorie intake diet and increased physical activity appear to be most effective [ 3 , 4 ]. The current article will discuss the development of a brief, cost effective, theory-based intervention using implementation intentions and mental imagery techniques to target dietary intake and physical activity behaviour to promote weight-loss.…”

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“…Research suggests that combining a calorie-reduced diet and regular physical activity will be effective in achieving weight loss and preventing obesity related risk factors [ 3 , 6 - 9 ]. Reducing 500 calories per day can assist with a weight-loss of approximately 0.5 kilograms a week [ 10 , 11 ].…”

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“…Physical activity guidelines in America and Australia recommend that adults engage in a minimum of 30 minutes of moderate activity on most or all days of the week to receive health benefits [ 14 ]. A combination of changes in dietary intake and physical activity behaviour will likely be most effective in assisting an individual to lose weight [ 3 , 4 ].…”

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Weight-loss intervention using implementation intentions and mental imagery: a randomised control trial study protocol

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BackgroundOverweight and obesity are major health problems worldwide. This protocol describes the HEALTHI (Healthy Eating and Active LifesTyle Health Intervention) Program, a 12-week randomised-controlled weight-loss intervention that adopts two theory-based intervention techniques, mental imagery and implementation intentions, a behaviour-change technique based on planning that have been shown to be effective in promoting health-behaviour change in previous research. The effectiveness of goal-reminder text messages to augment intervention effects will also be tested. The trial will determine the effects of a brief, low cost, theory-based weight-loss intervention to improve dietary intake and physical activity behaviour and facilitate weight-loss in overweight and obese individuals.Methods/DesignOverweight or obese participants will be randomly allocated to one of three conditions: (1) a psycho-education plus an implementation intentions and mental imagery condition; (2) a psycho-education plus an implementation intentions and mental imagery condition with text messages; or (3) a psycho-education control condition. The intervention will be delivered via video presentation to increase the intervention’s applicability in multiple contexts and keep costs low. We hypothesise that the intervention conditions will lead to statistically-significant changes in the primary and secondary outcome variables measured at 6 and 12 weeks post-intervention relative to the psycho-education control condition after controlling for baseline values. The primary outcome variable will be body weight and secondary outcome variables will be biomedical (body mass, body fat percentage, muscle mass, waist-hip circumference ratio, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein, total cholesterol, triglycerides, blood glucose and insulin levels), psychological (quality of life, motivation, risk perception, outcome expectancy, intention, action self-efficacy, maintenance self-efficacy, goal setting and planning), and behavioural (self-reported diet intake, and physical activity involvement) measures. We also expect the intervention condition augmented with text messages to lead to statistically significant differences in the primary and secondary outcome variables at the follow up periods after controlling for baseline values.DiscussionThe planned trial will test the effectiveness of the theory-based HEALTHI program intervention to reduce weight and salient psychological, biomedical, and behavioural outcomes in overweight and obese adults. The study has been designed to maximise applicability to real world settings and could be integrated into existing weight management practices.Trial registrationACTRN: ACTRN12613001274763. Registration date 19/11/2013.

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“…Additionally, 1 billion adults are overweight with at least 300 million of them being obese (World Health Organization [WHO], 2011a). Ninety-seven million of those overweight and obese adults reside in the United States (Blackwell, 2002). .…”

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Combating obesity through technology and school based interventions

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Over the past 12 years media multitasking has been on the rise with much of the multi-media increase being computer usage while watching television. Since media multitasking is already occurring, disrupting negative behaviors through media multitasking may lead to changes in snacking behavior and overall energy intake in adolescents and adults. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the potential to disrupt snacking behavior associated with television watching through the use of multitasking. Twenty-three men and 27 women (aged 25 ± 4 y, BMI 25.2 ± 4.1 kg/m 2 and 23 ± 4 y, BMI 25.5 ± 6.4 kg/m 2) participated, each completing both the control (watching a movie) and treatment (watching a movie while online chatting) activities. We observed sex differences with females consuming significantly more popcorn while chatting (P = .051) compared to males who consumed significantly more popcorn while not chatting (P = .041). Chip consumption was significantly greater (P = .026) when not chatting for all participants. We also observed weight status and sex differences with more (P<0.05) overweight and obese females consuming cookies white chatting compared to significantly more (P<0.05) overweight and obese males consuming popcorn while not chatting. Therefore media multitasking have negative implications for females, especially those who are overweight or obese.

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Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obese Adults

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Predicting Physical Activity‐Related Outcomes in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Health Action Process Approach

Predicting Physical Activity‐Related Outcomes in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Health Action Process Approach

Weight-loss intervention using implementation intentions and mental imagery: a randomised control trial study protocol

Combating obesity through technology and school based interventions

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