Not improve weight loss Mood: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The program announcements weight loss usually show Happy Happy to pay them an extra kilo-diet, but a new study finds that in the real world, time, weight loss can be associated with worsening mood.

Subsequent British researchers found more than 2,000 overweight and obese adults in four years that people who lost 5 percent or more of their body weight better physical health, but higher rates of depression. "We know that weight loss is so difficult to achieve or maintain, so we wondered if his part of the explanation could be that the psychological effects are not very positive," said Jane Wardle, head writer. The study and researcher at University College London "Our study is not definitive, because the people in the general population who had lost weight with the people who has not compared with each other - not that it was not a randomized study," said Wardle told Reuters Health in an e-mail. However, he added, the findings indicate that, although the weight loss is beneficial in terms of health, which can be a bit of a psychological battle. Wardle said, involved a lot of items and products that weight-loss is immediately make people feel better, but these results show that it can not be true. The overweight and obese adults are often told to lose weight to improve your health. And according to a survey in 2012 about 60 percent of obese adults in the United States had tried to lose weight in the past year. For people who are overweight and obesity, weight loss is known to reduce the risk of a variety of physical ailments. But research on the psychological benefits were mixed, Wardle and his co-authors write in the journal PLoS ONE. The researchers used data from 1,979 men and women with overweight and obesity, the part of the English Longitudinal Study of Aging, a large population study of British adults aged 50 and older. Nurses measure the size of your height, weight and waist of the individual participants and questionnaires were used to assess mood. In addition, triglycerides were measured in the blood pressure and serum cardiovascular risk. None of the participants was depressed when the study began. As observational study, the researchers give any instructions or tips to lose weight, but have been recorded or not participants expressed their intention to lose weight. After four years, 14 percent of participants lost at least 5 percent of their initial body weight, or about 15 pounds on average. Another 71 percent maintained their weight is stable, and 15 percent earned more than 5 percent of their body weight - about 14 pounds on average. The mean age was higher in the group of weight loss, and there were more men and more affluent participants in the group of stable weight. The people in the weight loss group also tend to lose more weight than their counterparts tend. Psychological well-being has deteriorated in the three groups, but the group weight 80 percent were lost more depressed than those to be kept their weight. The study does not prove that weight loss causes depression, the authors note. It is possible that depression has led some people to lose weight or that or the other and this causes some other participants had in common was responsible for weight loss or depression. But Wardle said he has an idea of why weight loss may be related to depression. "To lose weight, you should eat less than they would like, and maybe less people around, and lose the joy of eating is bound to be difficult, even if no compensation in the form of drop a dress size and improving their health" he said. "Maybe if we prepared more honest about the fact that not necessarily make you good, people are short-term challenge for the feel," Wardle said. She and her colleagues suggested in their report that more research on the emotional consequences of weight loss required. Dr. Ronald Sha, medical director of Duke University weight loss center in Durham, North Carolina, told Reuters Health, he is fascinated by the results, based on his own experiences in his clinic: "We see people for a short time -. a matter of weeks, but most of the leaves (Duke Medical Center) can be here in a better mood, "Sha, who was not involved in the new study. "Everyone sees a significant improvement in physical function, found a significant improvement in their mood and all, to lose weight." SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1n0O4Hb PLoS ONE, online August 6, 2014.

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