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Low calorie diet affects women's psychosocial well being.(Brief Article)
2002 AUG 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Obese women on a low-calorie diet lost weight and experienced a reduction in most negative psychological parameters, according to a report in the July issue of the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Kurt Laederach-Hofmann and colleagues at the Universities of Berne (Switzerland) and Trier (Germany) determined psychological, social, and metabolic parameters in nine obese women before and after a 6-week, low-calorie diet accompanied by behavior therapy sessions. Parameters measured included blood lipids and insulin sensitivity; psychosocial characteristics evaluated included depression, anger, anxiety, well being, and global severity index (a measure of overall level of psychological distress).
The low-calorie diet resulted in a significant loss in weight (average of 9.6 kg, p
Psychosocial parameters that decreased included hunger feelings (p
Researchers found a significant association between level of nervousness and percent body fat (p
Laederach-Hofmann and collaborators concluded, "Weight reduction may lead to better somatic risk factor control. Women with more nervousness and better sociability at the beginning of a diet period may lose more weight than others."
The corresponding author for this study is Kurt Laederach-Hofmann, University of Berne, Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Berne, Switzerland. E-mail: laederach@insel.ch.
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