I am trying to find a ways to incorporate what I do for a living with reconciling my weight maintenance goals.Please bear with me and I hope this post doesn't come off hokey and gives good information. I understand more than anyone in
the age of Google how easy it is to pinpoint and find information; for me I
deal mostly with scholarly peer-reviewed articles. I am not a snob; but as a librarian it
bothers me when I read an article from a news source and they reference this
and that (some with hyperlinks) and it still doesn’t lead you to the correct
source. This is because they receive
news feeds and don’t bother with tracking down the original source. I will try my best here to deliver the
original source. I use PubMed which is
the online version of the former MEDLINE, explanations about them can be found here.
I have saved searches for “weight maintenance” and “obesity and
African-American women,” that I have been tracking for about 2 years. The newest article in my queue is the one
below. The abstract is interesting
because it focuses on college women (for many, including yours truly, this is
where the wheels begin to fall of the wagon).
Also I will start to keep a list of scholarly journals dealing with
weight maintenance and control. Also
many universities are establishing centers for obesity which can be great
sources of information. I will also
update these types of posts when I read the full-text of the article. Right now, my institution does not subscribe
to this journal electronically but I have ordered the article. Also of note, I did get my hands on the
“Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire.” I
learned the three factors are: (1) cognitive restraint of eating; (2)
disinhibition; and (3) hunger. Below I have given some information of what to
note when reading a scholarly abstract in PubMed. (I am experimenting with text boxes and Blogger; I think i am losing, sorry if it's really bad)
The
current study examined healthy weight control practices among a sample of
college women enrolled at an urban university (N=715; age=19.87±1.16; 77.2%
Caucasian; 13.4% African American, 7.2% Asian, 2.2% other races). Participants
completed measures as part of an on-line study about health habits, behaviors,
and attitudes. Items from the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire were selected
and evaluated with exploratory factor analysis to create a healthy weight
control practices scale. Results revealed that college women, regardless of
weight status, used a comparable number (four of eight) of practices.
Examination of racial differences between Caucasian and African American women
revealed that normal weight African American women used significantly fewer
strategies than Caucasian women. Of note, greater use of healthy weight control
practices was associated with higher cognitive restraint, drive for thinness,
minutes of physical activity, and more frequent use of compensatory strategies.
Higher scores on measures of binge and disinhibited eating, body
dissatisfaction, negative affect, and depressive symptoms were associated with
greater use of healthy weight control practices by underweight/normal weight
but not by overweight/obese college women. Results suggest that among a sample
of college females, a combination of healthy and potentially unhealthy weight
control practices occurs. Implications of the findings suggest the need for
effective weight management and eating disorder prevention programs for this
critical developmental life stage. Such programs should be designed to help
students learn how to appropriately use healthy weight control practices, as
motivations for use may vary by weight status.
PMID: 23086250 [PubMed - in process]
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