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Lessons from obesity prevention for the prevention of mental disorders: the primordial prevention approach
BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence supports a relationship between risk factors for obesity and the genesis of the common mental disorders, depression and anxiety. This suggests common mental disorders should be considered as a form of non-communicable disease, preventable through the modification of lif...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25204469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0254-3 |
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author | Hayward, Joshua Jacka, Felice N Waters, Elizabeth Allender, Steven |
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description | BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence supports a relationship between risk factors for obesity and the genesis of the common mental disorders, depression and anxiety. This suggests common mental disorders should be considered as a form of non-communicable disease, preventable through the modification of lifestyle behaviours, particularly diet and physical activity. DISCUSSION: Obesity prevention research since the 1970’s represents a considerable body of knowledge regarding strategies to modify diet and physical activity and so there may be clear lessons from obesity prevention that apply to the prevention of mental disorders. For obesity, as for common mental disorders, adolescence represents a key period of vulnerability. In this paper we briefly discuss relationships between modifiable lifestyle risk factors and mental health, lifestyle risk factor interventions in obesity prevention research, the current state of mental health prevention, and the implications of current applications of systems thinking in obesity prevention research for lifestyle interventions. SUMMARY: We propose a potential focus for future mental health promotion interventions and emphasise the importance of lessons available from other lifestyle modification intervention programmes. |
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spelling | pubmed-41728802014-09-25 Lessons from obesity prevention for the prevention of mental disorders: the primordial prevention approach Hayward, Joshua Jacka, Felice N Waters, Elizabeth Allender, Steven BMC Psychiatry Debate BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence supports a relationship between risk factors for obesity and the genesis of the common mental disorders, depression and anxiety. This suggests common mental disorders should be considered as a form of non-communicable disease, preventable through the modification of lifestyle behaviours, particularly diet and physical activity. DISCUSSION: Obesity prevention research since the 1970’s represents a considerable body of knowledge regarding strategies to modify diet and physical activity and so there may be clear lessons from obesity prevention that apply to the prevention of mental disorders. For obesity, as for common mental disorders, adolescence represents a key period of vulnerability. In this paper we briefly discuss relationships between modifiable lifestyle risk factors and mental health, lifestyle risk factor interventions in obesity prevention research, the current state of mental health prevention, and the implications of current applications of systems thinking in obesity prevention research for lifestyle interventions. SUMMARY: We propose a potential focus for future mental health promotion interventions and emphasise the importance of lessons available from other lifestyle modification intervention programmes. BioMed Central 2014-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4172880/ /pubmed/25204469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0254-3 Text en © Hayward et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Debate Hayward, Joshua Jacka, Felice N Waters, Elizabeth Allender, Steven Lessons from obesity prevention for the prevention of mental disorders: the primordial prevention approach |
title | Lessons from obesity prevention for the prevention of mental disorders: the primordial prevention approach |
title_full | Lessons from obesity prevention for the prevention of mental disorders: the primordial prevention approach |
title_fullStr | Lessons from obesity prevention for the prevention of mental disorders: the primordial prevention approach |
title_full_unstemmed | Lessons from obesity prevention for the prevention of mental disorders: the primordial prevention approach |
title_short | Lessons from obesity prevention for the prevention of mental disorders: the primordial prevention approach |
title_sort | lessons from obesity prevention for the prevention of mental disorders: the primordial prevention approach |
topic | Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25204469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0254-3 |
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