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A Cognitive Profile of Obesity and Its Translation into New Interventions
Change your lifestyle: decrease your energy intake and increase your energy expenditure, is what obesity experts tell people who need to lose weight. Though the advice might be correct, it appears to be extremely difficult to change one’s lifestyle. Unhealthy habits usually are ingrained and hard to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661286/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26640451 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01807 |
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author | Jansen, Anita Houben, Katrijn Roefs, Anne |
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description | Change your lifestyle: decrease your energy intake and increase your energy expenditure, is what obesity experts tell people who need to lose weight. Though the advice might be correct, it appears to be extremely difficult to change one’s lifestyle. Unhealthy habits usually are ingrained and hard to change, especially for people with an “obese cognitive profile.” Knowledge of the cognitive mechanisms that maintain unhealthy eating habits is necessary for the development of interventions that can change behavior effectively. This paper discusses some cognitive processes that might maintain unhealthy eating habits and make healthier eating difficult, like increased food cue reactivity, weak executive skills and attention bias. An effort is also done to translate these basic scientific findings into new interventions which aim to tackle the sabotaging cognitive processes. Preliminary studies into the effectiveness of these interventions, if available, are presented. |
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spelling | pubmed-46612862015-12-04 A Cognitive Profile of Obesity and Its Translation into New Interventions Jansen, Anita Houben, Katrijn Roefs, Anne Front Psychol Psychology Change your lifestyle: decrease your energy intake and increase your energy expenditure, is what obesity experts tell people who need to lose weight. Though the advice might be correct, it appears to be extremely difficult to change one’s lifestyle. Unhealthy habits usually are ingrained and hard to change, especially for people with an “obese cognitive profile.” Knowledge of the cognitive mechanisms that maintain unhealthy eating habits is necessary for the development of interventions that can change behavior effectively. This paper discusses some cognitive processes that might maintain unhealthy eating habits and make healthier eating difficult, like increased food cue reactivity, weak executive skills and attention bias. An effort is also done to translate these basic scientific findings into new interventions which aim to tackle the sabotaging cognitive processes. Preliminary studies into the effectiveness of these interventions, if available, are presented. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4661286/ /pubmed/26640451 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01807 Text en Copyright © 2015 Jansen, Houben and Roefs. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Jansen, Anita Houben, Katrijn Roefs, Anne A Cognitive Profile of Obesity and Its Translation into New Interventions |
title | A Cognitive Profile of Obesity and Its Translation into New Interventions |
title_full | A Cognitive Profile of Obesity and Its Translation into New Interventions |
title_fullStr | A Cognitive Profile of Obesity and Its Translation into New Interventions |
title_full_unstemmed | A Cognitive Profile of Obesity and Its Translation into New Interventions |
title_short | A Cognitive Profile of Obesity and Its Translation into New Interventions |
title_sort | cognitive profile of obesity and its translation into new interventions |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661286/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26640451 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01807 |
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