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A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight?
Individuals exposed to dieting-related environmental cues have been repeatedly shown to be better able to resist tempting food. This especially applies to restrained eaters who hold a chronic dieting goal. Thus far, mainly short-term effects of environmental dieting cues have been examined and the i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7779523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33408662 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582369 |
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author | Stämpfli, Aline E. Stöckli, Sabrina Brunner, Thomas A. Messner, Claude |
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description | Individuals exposed to dieting-related environmental cues have been repeatedly shown to be better able to resist tempting food. This especially applies to restrained eaters who hold a chronic dieting goal. Thus far, mainly short-term effects of environmental dieting cues have been examined and the individuals were typically unaware of being influenced. Yet, it is unclear whether individuals can deliberately apply environmental dieting cues for themselves to facilitate the pursuit of the longer-term goal of losing weight. The present longitudinal study applied a 2 (cue: visually dieting-related vs. visually neutral cue) × 2 (awareness: being aware vs. not being aware of the cue’s facilitating influence) between-subjects design for 6 months (N = 166 participants who started the study; M(age) = 47.85 years; 69.9% female; M(BMI) = 29.07 kg/m(2)). Our results provide preliminary indications that cue, awareness, and restrained eating interact. The results suggest that high (vs. low) restrained eaters could deliberately apply environmental dieting cues for themselves to facilitate losing weight. However, further studies are needed to explore the effects of environmental dieting cues over a longer period of time. |
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spelling | pubmed-77795232021-01-05 A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight? Stämpfli, Aline E. Stöckli, Sabrina Brunner, Thomas A. Messner, Claude Front Psychol Psychology Individuals exposed to dieting-related environmental cues have been repeatedly shown to be better able to resist tempting food. This especially applies to restrained eaters who hold a chronic dieting goal. Thus far, mainly short-term effects of environmental dieting cues have been examined and the individuals were typically unaware of being influenced. Yet, it is unclear whether individuals can deliberately apply environmental dieting cues for themselves to facilitate the pursuit of the longer-term goal of losing weight. The present longitudinal study applied a 2 (cue: visually dieting-related vs. visually neutral cue) × 2 (awareness: being aware vs. not being aware of the cue’s facilitating influence) between-subjects design for 6 months (N = 166 participants who started the study; M(age) = 47.85 years; 69.9% female; M(BMI) = 29.07 kg/m(2)). Our results provide preliminary indications that cue, awareness, and restrained eating interact. The results suggest that high (vs. low) restrained eaters could deliberately apply environmental dieting cues for themselves to facilitate losing weight. However, further studies are needed to explore the effects of environmental dieting cues over a longer period of time. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7779523/ /pubmed/33408662 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582369 Text en Copyright © 2020 Stämpfli, Stöckli, Brunner and Messner. 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) and the copyright owner(s) 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 Stämpfli, Aline E. Stöckli, Sabrina Brunner, Thomas A. Messner, Claude A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight? |
title | A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight? |
title_full | A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight? |
title_fullStr | A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight? |
title_full_unstemmed | A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight? |
title_short | A Dieting Facilitator on the Fridge Door: Can Dieters Deliberately Apply Environmental Dieting Cues to Lose Weight? |
title_sort | dieting facilitator on the fridge door: can dieters deliberately apply environmental dieting cues to lose weight? |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7779523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33408662 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582369 |
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