Obesity Treatment

In Search of Optimal Weights for U.S. Men and Women.- What Is the Weight Required for Substantial Health Gains?.- Defining Socially and Psychologically Desirable Body Weights and the Psychological Consequences of Weight Loss and Regain.- Reasonable Weights: Determinants, Definitions and Directions.- Is Weight Stability Itself a Reasonable Goal?.- Regression Change Models with Incomplete Repeated Measures Data in Obesity Research.- Are There People Who Do Not Need to Lose Weight: The Role of Body Fat Distribution and Implications from Diabetes Research.- The Effect of Central Fat Distribution on Cardiovascular Disease.- Is Self-Acceptance a Reasonable Goal?.- Cultural Factors in Desirable Body Shapes and Their Impact on Weight Loss and Maintenance.- Why Should Patients Be Matched to Treatments, How May It Occur, and How Can It Be Studied?.- Treatment Options and the Maintenance of Weight Loss.- Why Do People Fail to Maintain Weight Loss?.- What Characterizes Successful Weight Maintainers?.- Application of Behavioral Economic Principles to Treatment of Childhood Obesity.- Psychosocial Predictors of Obesity: Implications for Prevention.- The Role of Exercise in Weight Maintenance.- Diet, Palatability, and Dietary Implications of Long-Term Weight Maintenance.- Influence of the Diet’s Macronutrient Composition on Weight Maintenance.- What Are Our Therapeutic Options?.- Potential Side Costs and Side Benefits of Pharmacological Treatment of Obesity.- Drug Treatment of Obesity: The Argument in Favor.- Predicting Treatment Outcome, Genetics, Neuroendocrinology, and Methodological Issues.- Behavioral and Psychological Predictors of Treatment Outcome in Obesity.- Predicting Treatment Outcome: Why We Have Been So Unsuccessful.- Prediction in Weight Management Outcome:Implications for Practice.- Neuroendocrine Aspects of Human Obesity and Fat Distribution: Potential for Intervention.- Social Stress Effects on Regional Fat Distribution in Male and Female Monkeys.- The Search for Obesity Genes.- Defining the Genetic Basis of Obesity: Challenges and Opportunities.- Research Design and Methods to Study the Genetic Epidemiology of Obesity.- Modeling and Data Analysis for Longitudinal Dietary Intervention.- Multilevel Analysis in Obesity Research.- Contributors.