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Relating body mass index to figural stimuli: population-based normative data for Caucasians

OBJECTIVE: To establish body mass index (BMI) norms for standard figural stimuli using a large Caucasian population-based sample. In addition, we sought to determine the effectiveness of the figural…
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The Eating Inventory in obese women: Clinical correlates and relationship to weight loss

The three factors of the EI showed clinical utility in a sample of women receiving treatment for obesity, and greater increases in restraint during treatment were associated with larger weight losses.
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A study of linkage and association of body mass index in the old order Amish

Evidence from linkage and association studies suggests that this region on chromosomes 1, 5, 7, 8, and 11 may be responsible, at least in part, for variation in BMI and BMI‐percentile in the Old Order Amish.
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Weighing the options: criteria for evaluating weight-management programs. The Committee to Develop Criteria for Evaluating the Outcomes of Approaches to Prevent and Treat Obesity.

The scientific evidence suggests strongly that obese individuals who lose even relatively small amounts of weight are likely to decrease their blood pressure, reduce abnormally high levels of blood glucose, bring blood concentrations of cholesterol and triglycerides down to more desirable levels, reduce sleep apnea, decrease their risk of osteoarthritis of the weight-bearing joints and depression, and increase self-esteem.
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Obesity and socioeconomic status--a complex relation.

One of the most striking facts about obesity is the powerful inverse relation between obesity and socioeconomic status in the developed world, especially among women1. What is responsible for this ...
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The accuracy of reports of weight: children's recall of their parents' weights 15 years earlier.

It is concluded that offspring reports of their parents' past weight may be a useful epidemiological tool because they are more highly correlated with measured body mass index than with skinfold thickness.
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Effective long-term treatment of obesity: a continuing care model

A low-cost program offering treatment of indefinite duration produced large long-term weight losses and may be suitable for widespread replication.
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Influences of genes and shared family environment on adult body mass index assessed in an adoption study by a comprehensive path model.

There was strong evidence for genetic effects, and no evidence for any effects related to the shared family environment--all familial resemblance in adults can be attributed to genetic influences, however, more than half of the interindividual differences in body mass index is due to nonshared individual environmental influences.
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Expert opinion on body mass index percentiles for figure drawings at menarche

The authors contacted clinicians and researchers who work in the area of childhood obesity to obtain a reasonable estimate of body mass index (BMI) percentile at menarche associated with a series of widely used figure drawings, and found that this approach may be useful in situations where weight and height are not readily recalled.
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Food accessibility and food choice. A test of Schachter's externality hypothesis.

All weight groups were equally responsive to the experimental manipulation of food cues, and no differences in selection by obese, overweight, and normal-weight individuals of meals or desserts were observed.
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