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Chu DT, Minh Nguyet NT, Nga VT, Thai Lien NV, Vo DD, Lien N, Nhu Ngoc VT, Son LH, Le DH, Nga VB, Van Tu P, Van To T, Ha LS, Tao Y, Pham VH. An update on obesity: Mental consequences and psychological interventions. Diabetes Metab Syndr 2019; 13:155-160. [PMID: 30641689 DOI: 10.1016/j.dsx.2018.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 07/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Besides physical consequences, obesity has negative psychological effects, thereby lowering human life quality. Major psychological consequences of this disorder includes depression, impaired body image, low self-esteem, eating disorders, stress and poor quality of life, which are correlated with age and gender. Physical interventions, mainly diet control and energy balance, have been widely applied to treat obesity; and some psychological interventions including behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and hypnotherapy have showed some effects on obesity treatment. Other psychological therapies, such as relaxation and psychodynamic therapies, are paid less attention. This review aims to update scientific evidence regarding the mental consequences and psychological interventions for obesity.
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- Dinh-Toi Chu
- Faculty of Biology, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Institute for Research and Development, Duy Tan University, 03 Quang Trung, Danang, Viet Nam.
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Chemistry, BMC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Center for NeuroGenetics, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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- VNU University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Thuyloi University, 175 Tay Son, Dong Da, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Social Work, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Pathology and Molecular Biology Center, National Cancer Hospital, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 8, 210095, China
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- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Faculty of Information Technology, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
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Samouda H, Ruiz-Castell M, Bocquet V, Kuemmerle A, Chioti A, Dadoun F, Kandala NB, Stranges S. Geographical variation of overweight, obesity and related risk factors: Findings from the European Health Examination Survey in Luxembourg, 2013-2015. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0197021. [PMID: 29902172 PMCID: PMC6001977 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
The analyses of geographic variations in the prevalence of major chronic conditions, such as overweight and obesity, are an important public health tool to identify “hot spots” and inform allocation of funding for policy and health promotion campaigns, yet rarely performed. Here we aimed at exploring, for the first time in Luxembourg, potential geographic patterns in overweight/obesity prevalence in the country, adjusted for several demographic, socioeconomic, behavioural and health status characteristics. Data came from 720 men and 764 women, 25–64 years old, who participated in the European Health Examination Survey in Luxembourg (2013–2015). To investigate the geographical variation, geo-additive semi-parametric mixed model and Bayesian modelisations based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques for inference were performed. Large disparities in the prevalence of overweight and obesity were found between municipalities, with the highest rates of obesity found in 3 municipalities located in the South-West of the country. Bayesian approach also underlined a nonlinear effect of age on overweight and obesity in both genders (significant in men) and highlighted the following risk factors: 1. country of birth for overweight in men born in a non-European country (Posterior Odds Ratio (POR): 3.24 [1.61–8.69]) and women born in Portugal (POR: 2.44 [1.25–4.43]), 2. low educational level (secondary or below) for overweight (POR: 1.66 (1.06–2.72)] and obesity (POR:2.09 [1.05–3.65]) in men, 3. single marital status for obesity in women (POR: 2.20 [1.24–3.91]), 4.fair (men: POR: 3.19 [1.58–6.79], women: POR: 2.24 [1.33–3.73]) to very bad health perception (men: POR: 15.01 [2.16–98.09]) for obesity, 5. sleeping more than 6 hours for obesity in unemployed men (POR: 3.66 [2.02–8.03]). Protective factors highlighted were: 1. single marital status against overweight (POR: [0.60 (0.38–0.96)]) and obesity (POR: 0.39 [0.16–0.84]) in men, 2. the fact to be widowed against overweight in women (POR: [0.30 (0.07–0.86)], as well as a non European country of birth (POR: 0.49 [0.19–0.98]), tertiary level of education (POR: 0.34 [0.18–0.64]), moderate alcohol consumption (POR: 0.54 [0.36–0.90]) and aerobic physical activity practice (POR: 0.44 [0.27–0.77]) against obesity in women. A double burden of environmental exposure due to historic mining and industrial activities and past economic vulnaribility in the South-West of the country may have participated to the higher prevalence of obesity found in this region. Other demographic, socioeconomic, behavioural and health status covariates could have been involved as well.
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- Hanen Samouda
- Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg
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- Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg
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- Competence Center for Methodology and Statistics, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg
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- Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg
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- Endocrinology and Diabetology Department, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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Wang G, Ekeleme-Egedigwe CA, El Hamdouchi A, Sauciuvenaite J, Bissland R, Djafarian K, Ojiambo R, Ramuth H, Holasek S, Lackner S, Diouf A, Hambly C, Vaanholt LM, Cao M, Hacker M, Kruger HS, Seru T, Faries MD, Speakman JR. Beauty and the Body of the Beholder: Raters' BMI Has Only Limited Association with Ratings of Attractiveness of the Opposite Sex. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2018; 26:522-530. [PMID: 29464908 DOI: 10.1002/oby.22092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2017] [Revised: 10/26/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Assortative mating for adiposity increases the genetic burden on offspring, but its causes remain unclear. One hypothesis is that people who have high adiposity find other people with obesity more physically attractive than lean people. METHODS The attractiveness of sets of images of males and females who varied in adiposity were rated by opposite sex subjects (559 males and 340 females) across 12 countries. RESULTS There was tremendous individual variability in attractiveness ratings. For female attractiveness, most males favored the leanest subjects, but others favored intermediate fatness, some were indifferent to body composition, and others rated the subjects with obesity as most attractive. For male images rated by females, the patterns were more complex. Most females favored subjects with low levels of adiposity (but not the lowest level), whereas others were indifferent to body fatness or rated the images depicting individuals with obesity as the most attractive. These patterns were unrelated to rater BMI. Among Caucasian males who rated the images of the thinnest females as being more attractive, the magnitude of the effect depended on rater BMI, indicating limited "mutual attraction." CONCLUSIONS Individual variations in ratings of physical attractiveness were broadly unrelated to rater BMI and suggest that mutual attraction is an unlikely explanation for assortative mating for obesity.
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- Guanlin Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Federal University Ndufu Alike lkwo, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
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- National Energy Center of Nuclear Science and Technology (CNESTEN), Joint Research Unit of Nutrition and Food, CNESTEN-Ibn Tofail University, Rabat, Morocco
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Clinical Nutrition, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Medical Physiology Department, College of Health Science, School of Medicine, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
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- Biochemistry Department, Central Health Laboratory Services, Ministry of Health and Quality of Life, Port Louis, Mauritius
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- Center of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Pathophysiology and Immunology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Center of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Pathophysiology and Immunology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Laboratory of Nutrition, Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Biology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
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- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- Centre of Excellence for Nutrition, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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- Family and Community Health Unit, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, College Station, Texas, USA
- Department of Humanities in Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, Bryan, Texas, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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