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| M R LoweSummaryAffiliation: Drexel University Country: USA Publications
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Restrictive dieting vs. "undieting" effects on eating regulation in obese clinic attendersM R Lowe
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Addict Behav 26:253-66. 2001..Implications of these findings for restraint theory, the three-factor model of dieting, and relapse in obesity treatment were discussed...- Neural correlates of individual differences related to appetiteMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Physiol Behav 97:561-71. 2009.... - Dieting: really harmful, merely ineffective or actually helpful?Michael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, 245 N 15th St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Br J Nutr 92:S19-22. 2004..In particular, we argue that judgements about the desirability of dieting should consider the likely consequences to particular individuals of engaging in, or not engaging in, dieting behaviour... - Eating motives and the controversy over dieting: eating less than needed versus less than wantedMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Mail Stop 626, 245 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Obes Res 13:797-806. 2005..In summary, the motivation to eat more than one needs appears to be every bit as real, and perhaps every bit as powerful, as the motivation to eat when energy deprived... - Stress-induced eating in restrained eaters may not be caused by stress or restraintMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Mail Stop 626, 245 N 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Appetite 46:16-21. 2006..g. scary movies, failure at a task) does not appear to be necessary to provoke overeating. An adequate explanation for stress-induced eating in restrained eaters remains elusive... - Weight suppression predicts weight gain during inpatient treatment of bulimia nervosaMichael R Lowe
Drexel University, USA
Physiol Behav 87:487-92. 2006..These findings suggest that weight suppression, independently of current dieting status, may produce psychobiological pressures toward weight gain and could complicate the treatment of bulimia nervosa... - Multiple types of dieting prospectively predict weight gain during the freshman year of collegeMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 626, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Appetite 47:83-90. 2006..Overall the results indicate that specific subtypes of dieting predicts weight gain during the freshman year better than more global measures of restraint or overeating... - The effect of training in reduced energy density eating and food self-monitoring accuracy on weight loss maintenanceMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:2016-23. 2008..Failure to maintain weight losses in lifestyle change programs continues to be a major problem and warrants investigation of innovative approaches to weight control... - Weight-loss maintenance 1, 2 and 5 years after successful completion of a weight-loss programmeMichael R Lowe
Drexel University, Department of Psychology, 245 N 15th Street, Mail Stop 626, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Br J Nutr 99:925-30. 2008..However, these results provide further evidence that maintenance of weight loss in those who successfully lose weight in one commercial weight-loss programme is more feasible than data from clinical populations have suggested... - What a difference a diet makes: towards an understanding of differences between restrained dieters and restrained nondietersMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Mail Stop 626, 245 N 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Eat Behav 5:199-208. 2004..These findings are most consistent with the Three-Factor Model of Dieting, but also point to needed revisions both in this model and in traditional restraint theory... - The Power of Food Scale. A new measure of the psychological influence of the food environmentMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Appetite 53:114-8. 2009..The PFS may be useful as a measure of the hedonic impact of food environments replete with highly palatable foods... - Dieting: false hope or falsely accused?Michael R Lowe
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Am Psychol 58:819-20; authors' reply 823-4. 2003 - An intervention study targeting energy and nutrient intake in worksite cafeteriasMichael R Lowe
Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Eat Behav 11:144-51. 2010..001). Providing nutrition labels and reducing the ED of selected foods was associated with improved dietary intake... - Evaluating the real-world effectiveness of cognitive-behavior therapy efficacy research on eating disorders: a case study from a community-based clinical settingMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 245 N 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Int J Eat Disord 44:9-18. 2011.... - Comparison of verbal and pictorial measures of hunger during fasting in normal weight and obese subjectsM R Lowe
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10102, USA
Obes Res 8:566-74. 2000..The present study compared normal weight and obese individuals on the pictorial measure and on more traditional verbal hunger measures during a 22-hour fast... - Hedonic hunger: a new dimension of appetite?Michael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Physiol Behav 91:432-9. 2007..This measure, combined with environmental manipulations of food availability and palatability, may constitute a useful approach to studying hedonic hunger... - Weight-loss maintenance in overweight individuals one to five years following successful completion of a commercial weight loss programM R Lowe
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 25:325-31. 2001..To determine weight loss maintenance among participants in a commercial weight loss program (Weight Watchers) who had reached their goal weights 1-5 y previously... - Self-regulation of energy intake in the prevention and treatment of obesity: is it feasible?Michael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, USA
Obes Res 11:44S-59S. 2003..Concerted efforts to change the availability and nature of foods at both the individual and population level may hold considerable promise for the treatment and prevention of obesity... - The relationship of weight suppression and dietary restraint to binge eating in bulimia nervosaMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Int J Eat Disord 40:640-4. 2007..Recent research has raised important questions about the relationships between weight suppression (WS) (discrepancy between highest-ever and current weight), dietary restraint, and binge eating in bulimia nervosa (BN)... - Weight suppression predicts time to remission from bulimia nervosaMichael R Lowe
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 79:772-6. 2011.... - An initial evaluation of a commercial weight loss program: short-term effects on weight, eating behavior, and moodM R Lowe
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA 19102 1192, USA
Obes Res 7:51-9. 1999..This paper describes an initial, 4-week evaluation of a commercial weight loss program... - A randomized trial examining differential meal replacement adherence in a weight loss maintenance program after one-year follow-upRachel A Annunziato
Fordham University, Department of Psychology, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
Eat Behav 10:176-83. 2009..Further research is necessary to determine if there are measures associated with successful MR use that can be detected at baseline and if MR adherence itself leads to changes in eating behavior... - Restraint, dieting, and the continuum model of bulimia nervosaM R Lowe
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 105:508-17. 1996..Overall, the results suggest that "normal" dieting is associated with psychological, but not consummatory, symptoms of bulimia... - Brain activation in restrained and unrestrained eaters: an fMRI studyMaria Coletta
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:598-609. 2009..The authors propose that the counterintuitive findings from preload studies and the present study are due to the fact that REs are less hungry than UREs when fasted and find palatable food more appealing than UREs when fed... - Perceived deprivation, restrained eating and susceptibility to weight gainJessica Tuttman Markowitz
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Appetite 51:720-2. 2008..This relationship may have important implications for understanding the motivation underlying restrained eaters' aberrant eating behaviors and the nature of their susceptibility to weight gain... - On the relation of dieting and bingeing in bulimia nervosaM R Lowe
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 1192, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 107:263-71. 1998..These results raise new questions about the continuum model of bulimia and suggest that weight-loss dieting may not play as prominent a role in the maintenance of bulimia as it does in its initiation... - Motivations for dieting: Drive for Thinness is different from Drive for Objective ThinnessYelena Chernyak
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102 1192, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:276-81. 2010..We conclude that restrained eaters diet mostly to avoid weight gain, that individuals with bulimia nervosa diet to achieve thinness and avoid fatness, and that the drive for objective thinness is a unique feature of bulimia nervosa... - Asymmetric prefrontal cortex activation in relation to markers of overeating in obese humansChristopher N Ochner
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Appetite 53:44-9. 2009..Further research to specify the precise role of prefrontal asymmetry in the motivation toward, and cessation of, feeding in obese individuals is encouraged... - A comparison of acceptance- and control-based strategies for coping with food cravings: an analog studyEvan M Forman
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Behav Res Ther 45:2372-86. 2007..Results are discussed in terms of the implications for weight loss maintenance strategies... - Does attrition during follow-up bias outcome data in studies of eating disorders?Amy M Neeren
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, 245 N 15th St, MS 626, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, USA
Eat Behav 11:40-4. 2010..Research on bulimia nervosa treatment based on responders to follow-up assessments may underestimate the amount of improvement that patients experience... - Correlates of subjective and objective binge eating in binge-purge syndromesIrina Kerzhnerman
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, USA
Int J Eat Disord 31:220-8. 2002..DISCUSSION: The results are discussed in light of research on restrained eating. Implications for diagnosis and the role of loss of control in defining binge behavior are also discussed... - Reductions in internal disinhibition during weight loss predict better weight loss maintenanceMeghan L Butryn
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1101-3. 2009..Long-term weight loss outcomes may be improved by spending sufficient treatment time teaching strategies for reducing eating in response to internal cues... - Are dietary restraint scales valid measures of acute dietary restriction? Unobtrusive observational data suggest notEric Stice
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Psychol Assess 16:51-9. 2004.... - Self-reported changes in dietary calcium and energy intake predict weight regain following a weight loss diet in obese womenChristopher N Ochner
Drexel University, Department of Psychology, Philadelphia, PA 19102 1192, USA
J Nutr 137:2324-8. 2007..Our results encourage future research on the potential relationship between dietary calcium and weight loss maintenance and suggest that controlling for dietary calcium may increase the ability of energy intake to predict weight change... - Continuity and discontinuity models of bulimia nervosa: a taxometric investigationD H Gleaves
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station 77842 4235, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 109:56-68. 2000..With both taxometric methods and both mixed and nonclinical samples, results were consistently suggestive of a latent taxon for bulimia. These results challenge a dimensional model of bulimia nervosa... - Weight suppression is a robust predictor of outcome in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of bulimia nervosaMeghan L Butryn
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:62-7. 2006..Relinquishing bulimic behaviors and adopting normal eating patterns may be most feasible for patients who are closest to their highest premorbid weights... - Taking action to lose weight: toward an understanding of individual differencesRachel A Annunziato
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1230, New York, NY 10029, USA
Eat Behav 8:185-94. 2007..Help-seeking for weight control in a community sample of overweight and obese individuals appears to be motivated by psychological aspects of obesity, rather than obesity's physical or medical burden... - Are dietary restraint scales valid measures of moderate- to long-term dietary restriction? Objective biological and behavioral data suggest notEric Stice
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Psychol Assess 19:449-58. 2007.... - A comparison of weight control behaviors in African American and Caucasian womenRachel A Annunziato
Ethn Dis 17:418-9. 2007 - A comparison of weight-control behaviors in African American and Caucasian womenRachel A Annunziato
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY 10029, USA
Ethn Dis 17:262-7. 2007.... - Comparing two measures of eating restraint in bulimic women treated with cognitive-behavioral therapyDebra L Safer
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5722, USA
Int J Eat Disord 36:83-8. 2004....
Research Grants
- Adaptation of a CBT Intervention for Eating DisordersMichael Lowe; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Prevention of Obesity at Universities:A Randomized TrialMichael Lowe; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Weight loss maintenance in primary careMichael Lowe; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- A Test of Nutritional Interventions to Enhance Weight Loss MaintenanceMichael Lowe; Fiscal Year: 2009..The primary aim of this study is to test two nutritional programs that, when combined with standard behavioral treatment, might improve weight loss maintenance. ..
- A Test of Nutritional Interventions to Enhance Weight Loss MaintenanceMichael R Lowe; Fiscal Year: 2010..The primary aim of this study is to test two nutritional programs that, when combined with standard behavioral treatment, might improve weight loss maintenance. ..
- A NUTRITIONAL APPROACH TO WEIGHT LOSS MAINTENANCEMichael Lowe; Fiscal Year: 2001..Data will be collected at pretreatment, posttreatment, and at 6- and 18-month follow-ups. ..
- A Cafeteria-Based Study of Weight Gain PreventionMichael Lowe; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..
- Prevention of Obesity at Universities:A Randomized TrialMichael R Lowe; Fiscal Year: 2010....