• Inherited, environmental, cultural, socioeconomic, and psychological factors form the complex foundation for determination of weight.

Unit I Lesson A (Historical Evolution of the Thin Ideal)
• There is insufficient evidence to claim that obesity is either a disease or a clear causal factor in other diseases that lead to increased morbidity/mortality for Americans.

Unit I Lesson C (Evidence Related To Weight and Health)
• Because weight gain and/or loss is not a simple problem of will power, but a complex interaction among multiple factors, no effective method for achieving long-term weight loss exists.

Unit III Lesson A (Efficacy)
• The research based evidence is inconclusive on the subject of whether weight loss leads to improved long-term health.

Unit III Lesson A (Health Improvement)

But, There is more!

• There is considerable evidence to demonstrate that traditional approaches to weight loss and the resulting weight cycling, are dangerous. Unit III Lesson A (Safety)
• A partial list of the negative health consequences of the obsession with thinness. Unit III Lesson B (Iatrogenesis)

References

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