Obesity Health: Losing weight does not bring happiness
But if weight loss in healthy obese people is associated with these services is unknown.
This problem is now of Sarah Jackson and colleagues from the United Kingdom in an article published in PLoS run | ONE.
The researchers examined data from 1,979 overweight and obese adults, free long-term illness or clinical depression at the start of the English Longitudinal Study of Aging.
Participants were weight change after four years, where they lose ≥5 wt%, those earning ≥5% and those whose weight remained stable grouped at 5%.
The proportion of participants with depressed mood by almost 300% in the group, the weight (about 15% of the participants) lost compared to a slight increase of 85% and 62% of the problems of the state increased mood in weight gain or weight stable groups on.
Compared with the group of constant weight, the weight loss group was almost twice as likely to report mood disorders.
Likewise, those who are in the weight loss group also tend to report lower well-being.
All effects remained in analyzes controlling for demographic variables, weight loss, intent and basic properties and despite adjustment for disease and life stress during weight loss.
Given the longitudinal nature of this study, it is impossible to determine cause and effect in these observations, but the results suggest that the issue of mental damage in healthy people, the weight loss can undergo warrant further study.
In the event that there is indeed a causal link between weight loss and negative pychological results the authors offer the following statement:
"The lack of long-term maintenance of weight loss is known and in itself could be seen as showing that the personal cost of losing weight the benefits are interpreted predominate. Resist food environments where there are opportunities abundant food requires self-maintained, and since the self- seems to be a limited resource, can suffer in other areas of life. Loss of fat deposits can also send signals to stimulate the restoration of adipocytes, appetite and hunger and weight transfer more difficult. These results suggest that weight loss is an important psychobiological challenge , and as such can affect the psychological well-being. "
Moreover, the weight loss also result from adverse changes in mood:
"In the clinical literature suggests a causal relationship in this sense, the disease often depression associated with significant weight loss, and treatment with antidepressants that cause weight gain. Population studies have also shown the longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and weight loss. Depressive mood can lead to weight loss, directly or indirectly through changes in appetite or activity. "
Can this third correlation results to be fully independent.
Whatever the true relationship, these results should perhaps warn against simply advise all people who are overweight or obese, regardless of whether they really have health problems, weight-related (or are satisfied in some other way with the way weight) to to lose weight it.
DrSharma
Edmonton, AB
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