MK Serdula, ME Collins, DF Williamson, RF … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1993 - Am Coll Physicians • Objective: To estimate the prevalence of various weight-loss practices in US
adolescents and adults. • Design: The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a self-
administered survey of a random sample of high school students in 1990 and ... Cited by 199 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
J Horm, K Anderson - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1993 - Am Coll Physicians • Objectives: To describe the characteristics and weight-loss methods of
persons who are trying to lose weight; to compare the knowledges and practices
regarding weight loss between those persons trying to lose weight and those ... Cited by 128 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
AS Levy, AW Heaton - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1993 - Am Coll Physicians • Objective: To estimate the relative prevalence of different types and
combinations of practices among weight-loss practitioners and to describe the
relations between individual characteristics and various features of ... Cited by 149 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
SA French, RW Jeffery - Health Psychology, 1994 - psycnet.apa.org Concern has been raised that negative physiological and psychological effects of
dieting may outweigh aesthetic and health benefits. This review of the
literature concludes the following: (a) The measurement of dieting is an ... Cited by 182 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
M Story, SA French, MD Resnick, RW Blum - International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1995 - interscience.wiley.com This study examined differences in perceptions of body weight, dieting,
unhealthy eating behaviors, and weight control methods among adolescent males
and females of various racial/ethnic and socioeconomic (SES) subgroups. ... Cited by 172 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►annals.org J Rodin - Annals of internal medicine, 1993 - Am Coll Physicians Several sociocultural and psychological factors underlie Western society's
intense preoccupation with the body. These factors include the social value of
attractiveness, the strong correlation between attractiveness and perceived ... Cited by 83 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►psycnet.org [PDF] SA French, CL Perry, GR Leon, JA Fulkerson - Health Psychology, 1995 - psycnet.apa.org The prevalence of dieting, weight change history, and specific weight loss
behaviors was examined in a population-based sample of 1,015 female 9th–12th
graders. Healthy weight loss behaviors were reported much more frequently ... Cited by 73 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►ajph.org [PDF] DF Williamson, MK Serdula, RF Anda, A Levy, … - American Journal of Public Health, 1992 - Am Public Health Assoc Voluntary weight loss is a common practice in the United States and appears to
be increasing in prevalence. In national surveys conducted between 1950 and
1966, about 7% of men and 14% ofwomen reported that they were trying to ... Cited by 153 - Related articles - All 7 versions
- ►ajph.org [PDF] MK Serdula, DF Williamson, RF Anda, A Levy, … - American Journal of Public Health, 1994 - Am Public Health Assoc Data for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) are col- lected
by state health departments in collaboration with the Centers for Dis- ease
Control and Prevention.4 During each year, an independent probability ... Cited by 53 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
