Weight Loss Treatments & Problems
Weight Loss Treatments
Treating obesity through weight loss has been a major public health priority
as a large number of people are trying to lose weight at any given time.
Many weight loss treatments widely available have adverse physical effects.
Risky weight loss methods, including prescription and over-the-counter
diet pills, semi starvation and other food restriction diets, stomach
reduction surgery, purging, laxatives, diuretics, vomiting, and fasting
can lead to a range of serious health problems, including life-threatening
conditions and death. Even weight loss itself can cause physical changes
that may be adverse to health or may escalate the risk of death.
Weight Loss Problems
A sound framework is needed for dealing realistically with eating and
weight problems by recognizing the interrelatedness of the four major
eating and weight problems: overweight, eating disorders, dysfunctional
or disordered eating, and size prejudice. This approach recognizes that
each of these problems is increasing in prevalence, has health risks,
and needs to be dealt with in ways that do no harm. The new paradigm emphasizes,
first of all, prevention of these problems, enhancing overall health and
well-being, and second, research-based treatment that promotes healthy,
normal eating, and does not disrupt normal, internally regulated eating
patterns.
Source: Blackwell Publishing 1999.
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