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The objective of this study was to test if proximity of a food or preference for a food influences food intake in a competitive food environment in which one low calorie/low fat (apple slices) and one higher calorie/higher fat (buttered popcorn) food was available in the same environment. The proximity of popcorn and apple slices was manipulated and 56 participants were randomly assigned to groups...
Children who are obese have impaired physical fitness. Balance and coordination are key parameters of fitness and when impaired can lead to falls and musculoskeletal injury. The aim was to investigate whether children who are obese have impaired balance and to explore whether balance impairment is associated with quality of life. Children were recruited from an obesity clinic and were classified as...
Elaborated Intrusion Theory (EI) postulates that imagery is central to craving, therefore a visually based task should decrease craving and craving imagery. This study provides the first laboratory test of this hypothesis in naturally occurring, rather than artificially induced, cravings. Participants reported if they were experiencing a craving and rated the strength, vividness and intrusiveness...
Objective: There have been repeated calls from health professionals and policy-makers to clarify the side-effects of the increasingly popular consumption trend of alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AmED). There is a dearth of research assessing the differential effects of AmED relative to alcohol by comparing self-reported psychological and physiological outcomes whilst under the influence of these...
Obesity is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) are good predictors. This prospective study aims to determine the efficacy of a six-month biopsychosocial intervention to decrease this predictors in children and adolescents with excess weight refractory to conventional treatment (dietary and/or exercise). 127 Patients were...
BeeZee Bodies is 17-week family-based intervention programme in deprived community settings for 7–15yr olds referred by a health professional. We evaluated the reach and completion of the programmes 2010–2012. Socio-demographic data were collected from the parent/guardian and IMD score calculated from the home postcode. BMI was expressed as the sex- and age-specific standard deviation from expected...
Health care workers’ (HCW) experiences of working with families with obese children have received little attention. Through understanding how to conceive encounters with the families, treatment may be improved. A qualitative design with three focus group interviews and an analysis inspired by Malterud’s guidelines was used. Six district nurses, one GP, one physiotherapist and one nurse participated,...
The burden of disease from childhood obesity is considerable worldwide, as it is associated with several co-morbidities, such as dyslipidemia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes (T2DM), orthopedic and psychosocial problems. We aimed to determine the prevalence of these complications in a population of overweight and obese children and adolescents. This is a cohort study including 774 new patients (1.7–17...
Cue reactivity may be determined by the ability of cues to evoke expectations that a reward will be imminently received. To test this possibility, the current study examined the effects of manipulating expectations about the receipt of food (pizza) on self-reported and physiological responses to pizza cues, and attentional bias to pizza pictures. It was predicted that expecting to eat pizza would...
Associations between sedentary activities and overweight/obesity have been demonstrated in experimental and epidemiological studies; traditionally this has been assumed to involve the displacement of physical activity, promoting positive energy balance and weight gain. Increasingly, researchers are challenging the utility of this ‘energy balance approach’, proposing that sedentary activities may promote...
Obesity in Andalusia is a big problem: 20.71% of children from 2 to 15 years of age are overweight and 17.56% are obese. One of the main objectives of The Andalusian Childhood Obesity Comprehensive Plan is to train the professionals and get their engagement and involvement in order to tackle this epidemic. In 2011 a Childhood Obesity Training Program was designed and a non hierarchical network of...
Strategies for prevention and treatment of obesity in adolescents are too often limited to lifestyle modifications and dietary counseling. EDUDORA 2 (Education thérapeutique et préventive face au Diabète et à l’Obésité à Risque chez l’Adulte et l’Adolescent) project focused on going beyond this dyadic and biological vision. 12 Triads were recruited in regions of Belgium, Luxembourg and France,...
Parents’ restriction of food intake has consistently been associated with a higher body mass index (BMI) in children. It is assumed that parental restriction weakens children’s self-regulation, but restriction may also be a parent’s response to child overweight. With few exceptions, studies have not examined this possibility. In longitudinal analyses, we aimed to identify directionality in the restrictive...
There is accumulating evidence that mindfulness-based interventions are useful in reducing food cravings. However, existing studies have applied many mindfulness skills together, rendering it unclear which skills are essential and which are unnecessary. Based on recent investigations into the efficacy of individual mindfulness skills at managing cravings, the goal of the present study was to compare...
While parental education level, often used as a single proxy for family’s socioeconomic status (SES), has recently been shown to be a powerful determinant of childhood obesity, the importance of other SES indicators, such as income, have so far not been effectively examined. To explore associations between different SES indicators with child’s weight status (expressed as BMI SDS) we used data from...
That is the question coming out by a psychological point of view, reviewing the cases we have treated in our service recently. Treating childhood obesity with multidisciplinary approach we detected some problems in obese families in term of psychological dynamics frequently. We analyzed cases seen in 2012: 157 people aging mean 11.35y (sd 3.02), with starting BMI mean 27.28 (sd 4.22); we detected...
NHS-Centres of paediatric nutrition are not distributed evenly. Therefore, patients are often addressed to private and/or non-paediatric Centres, that, usually, they only access when the situation worsens. A random group of 527 patients (M=224) were selected according to their district area and distance from our Centre: group A (Rome) 366 (M 163), mean age 10.44±2.77; B (Rome Province) 115 (M 43),...
Research suggests that repeatedly offering infants a variety of vegetables early during weaning, increases intake and liking of these vegetables and may facilitate acceptance of novel foods. Sixty mothers of 4–6 month old infants were randomised to an intervention group who were given guidance on introducing vegetables as first weaning foods, or a control group who received usual care. Mothers were...
The objective is to describe the design of the developmental project Healthy Future which aims to implement new evidence based program for the prevention of childhood obesity, and the collaboration and sharing of work between specialist and community health care professionals in a county in Norway. Comprehensive Participatory Planning and Evaluation (CPPE) process as an action oriented research approach...
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