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Integrating fundamental concepts of obesity and eating disorders: Implications for the obesity epidemic

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  • Macpherson-Sánchez, A.E.

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Physiological mechanisms promote weight gain after famine. Because eating disorders, obesity, and dieting limit food intake, they are famine-like experiences. The development of the concept of meeting an ideal weight was the beginning of increasing obesity. Weight stigma, the perception of being fat, lack of understanding of normal growth and development, and increased concern about obesity on the part of health providers, parents, and caregivers have reinforced each other to promote dieting. Because weight suppression and disinhibition provoke long-term weight increase, dieting is a major factor producing the obesity epidemic. The integrated eating disorder-obesity theory included in this article emphasizes that, contrary to dieters, lifetime weight maintainers depend on physiological processes to control weight and experience minimal weight change. © 2015, American Public Health Association Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Macpherson-Sánchez, A.E., 2015. "Integrating fundamental concepts of obesity and eating disorders: Implications for the obesity epidemic," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 105(4), pages 71-85.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2014.302507_1
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302507
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