Medicare's search for effective obesity treatments: diets are not the answer.

By T. Mann, A. Tomiyama, E. Westling, Ann-Marie Lew, Barbra Samuels, J. Chatman, David Creswell, David Frederick, Kelli K. Garcia, Johanna M. Jarcho and 7 more. American Psychologist, 2007

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Subfields: Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Physiology

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Weight stigma is stressful. A review of evidence for the Cyclic Obesity/Weight-Based Stigma model. (2014, background): “However, reviews of long-term outcomes of dieting (e.g., Mann et al., 2007; Tomiyama, Ahlstrom, & Mann, 2013) conclude that weight loss is not, on average, a common outcome of dieting.”
Through the eyes of dieters: Biased size perception of food following tempting food primes (2011, background): “Although many people try to control their body weight by restricting food intake, most fail in the long term (Mann et al., 2007).”
Platemate: crowdsourcing nutritional analysis from food photographs (2011, background): “Seeking comprehensible and actionable advice, Americans spend over $40 billion each year on diets and selfhelp books [18], but achieve little success: the majority eventually regain any lost weight and more [13].”
Obesity stigma: important considerations for public health. (2010, background): “Most weight losses are not maintained and individuals regain weight after completing treatment.(67,70) Patients who have lost weight through lifestyle modification typically regain 30% to 35% of their lost weight during the year following treatment, and regain most (if not all) of their lost weight ”
OlloBot - Towards A Text-Based Arabic Health Conversational Agent: Evaluation and Results (2019, background): “However, according to studies (Mann et al., 2007) temporary ﬁxes to old habits makes people to regain their weight.”
Maintenance of lost weight and long-term management of obesity (2018, background): “Indeed, previous failed attempts at achieving durable weight loss may have contributed to the recentdecrease in thepercentageofpeoplewithobesitywhoare trying to lose weight,(5) and many now believe that weight loss is a futile endeavor.(6)”
Work or Fun? How Task Construal and Completion Influence Regulatory Behavior (2011, positive): “This might explain why the average dieter is 11 pounds heavier than their prediet weight 5 years after successful weight loss (Mann et al. 2007).”
Intuitive Eating (2020, background): “We share the idea that a new glance is needed in the area of eating behavior and the relation between health and weight (Bacon & Aphramor, 2011; Mann et al., 2007).”
Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift (2011, background): “Given the well-documented recidivism typical of weight loss programs [5,27,28] and the potential harm that may arise [29,30], this aspect is particularly noteworthy.”