Rena R Wing

..More research is needed to determine whether this is a viable strategy to strengthen stimulus control and improve weight loss outcomes...

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..Weight loss maintenance may get easier over time. Once these successful maintainers have maintained a weight loss for 2-5 years, the chances of longer-term success greatly increase...

..We examined the effects of lifestyle intervention on changes in weight, fitness, and CVD risk factors during a 4-year study...

..Overweight men with diabetes often report erectile dysfunction (ED), but few studies have examined effects of weight loss on this problem...

..We sought to determine whether relapses could be induced earlier by intentionally interrupting the momentum of weight loss during a treatment program and thus provide a model for weight maintenance research...

..Changes in diet and exercise can produce long-term weight loss with tremendous positive impact. Primary care physicians are well positioned to support these behavior changes in their overweight patients...

..These data provide a benchmark that can be used for comparisons with other statewide campaigns. Research on ways to improve such campaigns is needed...

..Future programs should focus on maintaining physical activity, dietary restraints, and frequent self-weighing and should include stronger components to modify psychological parameters...

..An important finding is that modest weight losses of just 5% to 10% of initial body weight appear sufficient to produce these benefits for diabetes prevention and cardiovascular risk reduction...

..The present study examined the association of cardiorespiratory fitness and obesity with CVD risk factors in an ethnically diverse sample of overweight/obese individuals with type 2 diabetes...

..National Weight Control Registry members provide evidence that long-term weight loss maintenance is possible and help identify the specific approaches associated with long-term success...

..Food provision seems to be a useful strategy for promoting weight loss...

..We developed a maintenance program based on self-regulation theory and tested the efficacy of delivering the program face to face or over the Internet...

..Overweight and obese individuals are encouraged to lose 5-10% of their body weight to improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but data supporting this recommendation are limited, particularly for individuals with type 2 diabetes...

..1) Does exercise alone produce weight loss? (2) Does exercise in combination with diet produce greater weight loss than diet only? and (3) Does exercise in combination with diet produce better maintenance of weight loss than diet alone?..

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..We examined whether adding behavioral weight loss strategies could improve the outcomes of a community weight loss campaign...

..Initial weight loss improves urinary incontinence in overweight and obese women. In this study we examined the longer term effects of a weight loss intervention on urinary incontinence...

..This review article discusses the significance of each of these four topics, briefly reviews prior research in each area, identifies barriers to progress, and makes specific research recommendations...

..To examine the relationship between magnitude of weight loss and changes in urinary incontinence frequency...

..e., ? 5%) in overweight/obese participants with type 2 diabetes and maintain this loss in more than 45% of patients at 4 years...

..This study examined (1) how much of their remaining time is spent in sedentary behaviors (SB < 1.5 METs) compared to light-intensity activities (1.5–2.9 METs) and (2) whether sedentary time varies by BMI...

..Given conflicting messages between child and adult weight loss interventions, the role of RCSF in adolescent weight control was of particular interest...

..7%) gained > or = 1 kg over the holidays, and this effect persisted 1 month later (28.3% and 10.7%, respectively). SWL worked harder than NW did to manage their weight, but they appeared more vulnerable to weight gain during the holidays...

..However, few studies have determined the amount and intensity of activities undertaken preoperatively by bariatric surgery patients using objective measures...

..Medical events are often reported as triggers for weight loss, but it is unknown whether medical triggers result in better short- and long-term weight control...

..The study was conducted at Miriam Hospital (Providence, RI)...

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..2 +/- 18.0 kg (70.9 +/- 39.5 lbs) and maintained a weight loss of at least 13.6 kg (30 lbs) for 6.1 +/- 7.7 years...

..Little is known about the natural history of weight change among persons who are successful at losing weight...

..Findings underscore the importance of targeting social influence in the treatment and prevention of obesity in this high-risk age group...

..The lifestyle intervention was clinically effective in all subsets of an ethnically and demographically diverse population...

..Given the importance of social networks in behavior change, this paper focused on the effects of team and team characteristics on activity outcomes...

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..The setting was private hospitals and research center in the United States...

..We used the validated Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) to assess the prevalence of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) in a sample of >100 women evaluated for bariatric surgery...

..Further research involving larger samples is needed to confirm these findings and to determine whether self-report and objective PA measures are differentially associated with surgical weight loss outcomes...

..03). Daily weighing appears to be an important aspect of weight loss maintenance and was not associated with adverse psychological effects...

..The present study examined whether FSD resolves after bariatric surgery...

..To evaluate the efficacy of behavioral weight control intervention with a peer-enhanced activity intervention versus structured aerobic exercise in decreasing body mass index (BMI) and z-BMI in overweight adolescents...

..Participants had lost an average of 33.1 kg and maintained a 13.6-kg loss for 5.8 years before enrollment. Evaluations of diet and physical activity were conducted at entry into the NWCR and prospectively over 1 year...

..e., parent weight change, self-monitoring of their behavior, and feeding practices and attitudes) and changes in adolescent BMI and weight following 16-weeks of behavioral weight control (BWC) intervention...

..The objective was to examine whether having a weight loss experience that lives up to one's expectations is related to maintenance in a group of successful weight losers participating in the STOP Regain trial...

..This investigation examined relationships between liking and household availability of high- and low-fat foods and their association with dietary fat intake...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the factor structure of the disinhibition scale and determine how its factors independently relate to long-term weight loss outcomes...

..Weight loss programs on the Internet appear promising for short-term weight loss but have not been studied for weight loss in individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes; thus, the longer-term efficacy is unknown...

..However, twin models that incorporate a gene-environment correlation and gene x environment interaction have not been applied to elucidate specific environmental factors that affect the heritability of BMI...

..Evaluate enrollment numbers, randomization rates, costs, and cost-effectiveness of active versus passive recruitment methods for parent-child dyads into two pediatric obesity intervention trials...

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate long-term weight loss and eating and exercise behaviors of successful weight losers who lost weight using a low-carbohydrate diet...

..To determine whether eating, sedentary, and physical activity behaviors differ on weekdays and weekends in a sample of children who are overweight and obese...

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..These findings indicate that limiting variety across several days reduces hedonics of the limited food...

..Weight gain in young adults is an important public health problem and few interventions have been successful...

..However, little work to date has examined how SWLs differ biologically from normal-weight (NW) and obese controls...

..To evaluate demographic and psychosocial predictors of attrition and weight loss in a behaviorally based adolescent weight control trial...

..An alternative model in which adherence precedes and influences both mood state and health outcome is discussed. Finally, possible explanations for these relationships are explored and suggestions for future research provided...

..Future research should examine if limiting food group variety over an extended time affects intake and could be used as a technique in weight loss interventions...

..To investigate whether fast food consumption and breakfast skipping are associated with weight gain during the transition from adolescence to adulthood...

..Recent evidence indicates that social contact is related to similarities in weight gain over time. However, no studies have examined this effect in a twin design, in which genetic and other environmental effects can also be estimated...

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..24, P = 0.03), ballooning injury (-1.27 versus -0.53, P = 0.03) and NAS (-3.45 versus -1.18, P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Weight reduction achieved through lifestyle intervention leads to improvements in liver histology in NASH...

..Future research should evaluate the efficacy of these programs for bariatric patients...

..Future randomized controlled trials should examine whether assisting patients who are inactive preoperatively to increase their PA postoperatively contributes to optimization of weight loss and HRQoL outcomes...

..This study aims to improve understanding of how alcohol consumption in college freshmen affects eating patterns before, during, and after drinking, as well as its relation to body weight change...

..This study suggests that several years of successful weight maintenance increase the probability of future weight maintenance and that weight regain is due at least in part to failure to maintain behavior changes...

..8 +/- 7.9 years, 85% female, body mass index (BMI) = 47.4 +/- 7.5 kg/m(2)] and 18 normal-weight controls (48.4 +/- 9.5 years, 88.9% female, BMI = 22.7 +/- 1.2 kg/m(2))...

..Thus, this study examined the independent effects of package unit size and amount of food on intake. It was hypothesized that both variables would influence intake...

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..However, it is less clear whether weight loss may help to alleviate migraine in obese individuals. We examined whether weight loss after bariatric surgery is associated with improvements in migraine headaches...

..To examine whether there are ethnic differences in oxygen consumption during fixed periods of exercise...

..Rapid increases in access to the Internet have made it a viable mode for public health intervention. No controlled studies have evaluated this resource for weight loss...

..Since peers have such an important influence on adolescents, we evaluated the efficacy of adding peer-based 'adventure therapy' to a standard cognitive-behavioral weight control program for overweight adolescents...

..To determine whether perceived risk and other health beliefs held by individuals at high risk for developing NIDDM predict weight loss and behavior change during a behavioral weight loss program to reduce the risk of NIDDM...

..To determine if method of weight loss (surgery; non-surgery) is associated with current levels of psychosocial functioning or current weight maintenance behaviors in individuals who have lost large amounts of weight...

..Experimental studies show diets with greater variety in energy-dense foods increase consumption and body weight. Reducing variety in energy-dense food groups may decrease energy and dietary fat intake, promoting weight loss...

..Overweight and obesity are increasingly prevalent in the United States. The prevalence of health care provider advice to lose weight is not clear...

..Enhancing participation in long-term exercise may translate into improved long-term weight loss in overweight adults...

..No study has examined habituation rates in weight loss maintainers (WLMs) who have reduced from obese to normal weight, relative to those who are Ob or NW...

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..Binge eating NBED women tended to experience worse mood, less control, and more craving than other NBED women, contributing to evidence of the close relationship of binge eating and decrements in emotional and appetitive functioning...

..The present study examined whether long-term weight loss maintenance is enhanced by maintaining the same diet regimen across the week and year or by dieting more strictly on weekdays and nonholiday periods than at other times...

..To compare the enrollment, attendance, retention and weight losses of young adults in behavioral weight loss (BWL) programs with older participants in the same trials...

..There was no evidence that long-term suppression of body weight is associated with psychological distress...

..Thus, changes in leptin concentration during weight loss track with changes in weight. However, neither baseline concentrations nor initial changes in leptin predict success at weight loss or maintenance...

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..To examine the role of television (TV) viewing in long-term maintenance of weight loss...

..We explored the contribution of changes in weight, diet, and physical activity on the risk of developing diabetes among ILS participants...

..Recommending increased physical activity facilitates long-term weight loss, but the optimal level of physical activity to recommend is unknown...

..This provided the opportunity to examine the relationship between the three activity measures and to compare activity levels of the DPP sample with that of a national sample with IGT...

..Several studies have shown that e-mail counseling improves weight loss achieved in self-directed Internet programs. Computer-tailored feedback offers a population-based alternative to human e-mail counseling...

..This report describes 1-year changes in CVD risk factors in a trial designed to examine the long-term effects of an intensive lifestyle intervention on the incidence of major CVD events...

..The efficacy of a dietary and physical activity lifestyle intervention to prevent weight gain and elevations in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors from the peri- to postmenopause is unknown...

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..The objectives were to investigate the characteristics associated with frequent self-weighing and the relationship between self-weighing and weight loss maintenance...

..This paper examines demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral factors related to achieving weight loss and physical activity goals in the DPP lifestyle participants...

..Past research has surveyed primary care physicians (PCP) about their attitudes and practices towards obese patients, yet less is known about the patients receiving advice...

..Such information is important for providing an accurate picture to those individuals seeking to lose weight of what it takes to be a successful weight loss maintainer. ..

..We believe the strengths of our faculty, funded research opportunities, and training record make us uniquely qualified to offer this training program in behavior change and CVD. (End of Abstract) ..

..If effective in womenwith incontinence, the methods and strategies of this innovative motivationally-focusedmaintenance intervention can beexamined n other obese populations. ..

..These procedures will enable us to analyze the effects of the intervention on serious cardiovascular- related factors and complications, and cost-effectiveness of the intervention. ..

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..This approach shows promise for reducing weight gain and thereby improving long-term cardiovascular health. (End of Abstract) ..

..If effective, the intervention methodologies can be adapted to clinical settings. Use of social support partners may also increase the population outreach of behavioral weight control programs. ..

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