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J W Smoller

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PubMed1987

Dieting and depression: a critical review.

Investigations of affective changes during weight reduction have produced sharply conflicting results. Studies conducted through the 1950s and 1960s indicated that weight reduction was accompanied by a high incidence of affective disturbance ranging from simple dysphoria to clinical depression and psychosis. More recently, studies of behavioral programs have suggested that weight reduction may actually improve mood. A critical and systematic review of the literature revealed that the conflicting evidence is best explained by differences in mood assessment. The method of mood assessment consistently predicted the affective changes observed in previous reports. Other variables previously thought to influence affective response to weight reduction, including duration of treatment and weight loss, did not independently predict outcome.

Body Weight↗
PubMed1986

Psychological and social aspects of the surgical treatment of obesity.

New surgical procedures have revolutionized the treatment of morbid obesity (more than 100% overweight), a condition associated with serious medical complications and for which conservative treatment has been largely ineffective. These procedures, which are surprisingly safe, produce large weight losses and marked improvement in hypertension, diabetes, and other disorders influenced by obesity. Striking changes also occur in vocational and psychosocial functioning, including marital and sexual relations, in eating behavior, in food preferences, and in body image. The emotional state of patients during weight loss following surgery is far superior to that during attempts at weight reduction by other methods. The surgical procedures appear to produce a major biological change, perhaps lowering a body weight set point.

Adaptation, Psychological↗