ReviewCurrent obesity reports2024
Debating Weight Loss vs. Weight Neutral Strategies for Improvements of Health.
Review in Current obesity reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Long-Term Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Children With Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Obesity.JAMA pediatrics · 2026Article
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- Changes in how people living with obesity perceive weight-related discussions with their healthcare professional: Results from the cross-sectional online ACTION-DK 2022 and 2024 studies.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Article
- Gaps in obesity education - thematic narrative analysis from healthcare graduates: findings from the Erasmus Mundus EMINENT project.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Exploring the Relationship Between theNutrients · 2026Article
- An Expansion of Weight Inclusivity to Include Body Autonomy and Harm Reduction: Striving for Health Equity.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2026Article
- Implementation science in nutrition practice: A review of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2025Review
- Effects of Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Attention Training on Desire-Driven Eating in Healthy Adults: A Quasi-Experimental Early-Stage Feasibility Study.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Call to Action: Addressing Medical School as a Source of Weight Stigma Requires Transformative Change.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of a Non-Weight-Centric Approach to Obesity Prevention in Rural and Urban Female Adolescents: Quasi-Experimental Study.Interactive journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Weight Stigma in the Metabolic Bariatric Surgery Context: Current State of the Literature, Conceptual Model, and Looking Forward.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- The Impact of Novel Medications for Obesity on Weight Stigma and Societal Attitudes: A Narrative Review.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Development of Body Weight Management Among the Hungarian Population.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewDespite decades of development and testing of weight-loss interventions, the adult populations worldwide have witnessed a continuous rise in body weight. There is an ongoing debate about how to move forward. Some argue that this rise calls for more intensive and possibly life-long treatments, including the new effective GLP1 weight loss medications, while others have called for a fundamental shift away from weight and on to a broader understanding of health. The two strategies are represented as a weight-centric health strategy and a weight neutral health strategy. This paper debates the benefits and potential harms related to the use of these two strategies. RECENT
findingsWhile major weight loss may have substantial health benefits, many individuals will need intensive treatment including weight loss medication to achieve it, as generally few are able to sustain a lifestyle induced weight loss in the long term. Both the weight loss and the weight-neutral health strategies have advantages and limitations emphasizing the need for further research comparing the two strategies. Currently, not everyone is offered, can afford, will tolerate or even desire treatment with weight loss medication, and weight neutral health strategies may be a desirable alternative intervention offering a more holistic approach to health and addressing psychological and social issues including the burden of experienced and internalized weight stigma. However, this method still needs to be tested for effectiveness with regards to both physical and long-term psychological benefits.
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