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  2. Weight management - Wikipedia

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    However, weight neutral approaches to health have also been shown to result in positive health outcomes. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Understanding the basic science of weight management and strategies for attaining and maintaining a healthy weight is important because obesity is a risk factor for development of many chronic diseases , like Type 2 diabetes ...

  3. Social determinants of obesity - Wikipedia

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    Social context associated with meal-time plays a key role in factors involved with obesity. Studies have shown the effects of family meal- time in relation to childhood obesity. A study done by Jerica Berge [16] looked only that the interactions at meal times with families and neglected the types of foods they were eating. The results showed ...

  4. Ingestive behaviors - Wikipedia

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    Ingestive behaviors encompass all eating and drinking behaviors. These actions are influenced by physiological regulatory mechanisms; these mechanisms exist to control and establish homeostasis within the human body. [1] Disruptions in these ingestive regulatory mechanisms can result in eating disorders such as obesity, anorexia, and bulimia.

  5. Brain scans show how different factors can influence obesity ...

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    New research shows the ways obesity factors vary between men and women, with men being more prone to feelings of hunger and women being prone to emotional eating. Brain scans show how different ...

  6. Diet and obesity - Wikipedia

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    Numerous large studies have demonstrated that eating ultraprocessed food has a positive dose-dependent relationship with both abdominal obesity and general obesity in both men and women. [27] Consuming a diet rich in unprocessed and minimally processed foods is linked with lower obesity risk and less chronic disease.

  7. Social influences on fitness behavior - Wikipedia

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    Obesity is a physical marker of poor health, increasing the likelihood of various diseases. [2] Due to social constructs surrounding health, the belief that being skinny is healthy and discrimination against those perceived to be 'unhealthy', [3] people who are considered overweight or obese on the BMI scale face many social challenges.

  8. Social determinants of health - Wikipedia

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    Health starts where we live, learn, work, and play. SDOH are the conditions and environments in which people are born, live, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risk. They are non-medical factors that influence health outcomes and have a direct correlation with health ...

  9. Social stigma of obesity - Wikipedia

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    The results of this research article highlighted the importance of needing to increase research and policy attention to addressing weight and health-related stigma as an issue regarding prevention and treatment for obesity in order to consequently decrease weight-driven inequalities in communities and differing groups, primarily focused on race ...