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ReviewJournal of family medicine and primary care2019

Get lean and go green: Role for "Eat-ology" behavior modification.

Samra Abouchacra, Satish Chandrasekhar Nair, Oudi Abouchacra, Omar Yaman

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Review in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Samra AbouchacraDepartment of Medicine, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAE.
Satish Chandrasekhar NairAcademic Affairs, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE.
Oudi AbouchacraInspired Results Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Omar YamanQueens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Al Ain Hospital · AEQueen's University · CATawam Hospital · AE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity rates are rising exponentially reaching global epidemic proportions and are associated with substantially increased morbidity and mortality. Less appreciated are the serious risks this poses on our environment from increased greenhouse gas emissions related to obesogenic behavior. In spite of a plethora of diets, the results are short term and nonsustainable, thereby leaving individuals battling with more weight than they lost. This is likely attributable to inherent flaws in the nature of weight loss diets or perhaps the approach of implementing them. These grim realities will be exposed to lead the way to uncover a novel "behavior modification for weight loss" strategy called Eat-ology. It exposes eating errors and imparts techniques to transform them into eating essentials, thereby enabling weight loss and its long-term maintenance. It is through such approaches that we can hope to win the fight against obesity and achieve not only a leaner global society but also a greener environment.

Indexed as

Eating behaviorEat-ologyglobal warminggreenhouse gas emissionsobese

Identifiers

PMID31198711
PMCPMC6559081
OpenAlexW2948947863

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Registered trials

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