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The current obesity pandemic imposes a major global disease burden. However, sustained weight loss of between 5 and 10% in the obese confers marked health benefits. Currently available pharmacotherapies, orlistat and sibutramine, can induce weight loss of between 5 and 10% over 2 years or more. However, in these trials, drug induced weight loss tends to be only 2–4kg greater than that produced by...
Previous studies in humans have shown that short to middle-term pre-exposure to multiple foods can reduce the negative response to novel foods (neophobia). In order to explore the effects of a long-term exposure to varied foods on food neophobia, we studied a population of obese adolescents observed in a longitudinal protocol in which the multiple food experiences are induced by a residential weight...
People are inundated with messages about foods' healthiness/unhealthiness and capacity for weight gain/loss. This study examined how people evaluate foods for ‘healthiness/unhealthiness’ or ‘capacity for weight gain/loss’ and whether these evaluations influence ‘caloric’ estimation accuracy. Fifty-five participants in a behavioral weight loss program rated eight ‘healthy’ and eight ‘unhealthy’ foods...
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