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Myths, Presumptions, and Facts about Obesity

by Rolls, Barbara J , Birch, Leann L , Newby, P.K , McIver, Kerry , Sen, Bisakha , Menachemi, Nir , Allison, David B , Fontaine, Kevin R , Brown, Andrew W , Mehta, Tapan , Astrup, Arne , Bohan Brown, Michelle M , Foster, E. Michael , Heymsfield, Steven B , Pate, Russell , Casazza, Krista , Thomas, Diana M , Durant, Nefertiti , Dutton, Gareth , Smith, Daniel L

in Biological and medical sciences / Body weight loss / Breast Feeding / Children / Diet, Reducing / Energy Intake / Energy Metabolism / Environment / Exercise - physiology / Female / General aspects / Goals / Humans / Male / Medical sciences / Metabolic diseases / Obesity / Obesity - physiopathology / Obesity - prevention & control / Obesity - therapy / Public health / Weight Loss

2013

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Myths, Presumptions, and Facts about Obesity

Rolls, Barbara J,

Birch, Leann L,

Newby, P.K,

McIver, Kerry,

Sen, Bisakha,

Menachemi, Nir,

Allison, David B,

Fontaine, Kevin R,

Brown, Andrew W,

Mehta, Tapan,

Astrup, Arne,

Bohan Brown, Michelle M,

Foster, E. Michael,

Heymsfield, Steven B,

Pate, Russell,

Casazza, Krista,

Thomas, Diana M,

Durant, Nefertiti,

Dutton, Gareth,

Smith, Daniel L

2013

Overview

This commentary reviews common myths and presumptions about obesity and also provides some useful evidence-based concepts about overweight and obesity. Passionate interests, the human tendency to seek explanations for observed phenomena, and everyday experience appear to contribute to strong convictions about obesity, despite the absence of supporting data. When the public, mass media, government agencies, and even academic scientists espouse unsupported beliefs, the result may be ineffective policy, unhelpful or unsafe clinical and public health recommendations, and an unproductive allocation of resources. In this article, we review some common beliefs about obesity that are not supported by scientific evidence and also provide some useful evidence-based concepts. We define myths as beliefs held to be true despite substantial refuting evidence, presumptions . . .

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Massachusetts Medical Society

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Biological and medical sciences