Weight loss can lead to increased risk of depression
Most ads on diets or weight loss programs often show happy people, happy to shed the extra kilos but now a new British study has found that those who manage to lose weight improve your physical health but have higher rates of depression.
This follows from the results of an investigation of University College London (UK) with results published in the latest issue PLoS One ', which aims to actually losing weight could cause a mood different than previously thought.
"We know that weight loss is difficult to achieve or maintain, so we wonder if this could partly explain the psychological effects were not entirely positive," acknowledged Jane Wardle, the lead author of the study.
The researchers used data from 1,979 men and women who are overweight and obese who were part of a longitudinal study on aging in the UK, so we all had more than 50 years.
Thus, they analyzed the height, weight and waist circumference of all participants, and a series of questionnaires were used to assess their mood. Also, your blood pressure and triglyceride level was measured to determine their cardiovascular risk.
At baseline, none of the participants had symptoms of depression, and as this was an observational study, researchers gave advice or instruct participants how to lose weight, but simply to count those who showed intent to do .
Four years later, 14 percent of participants were able to lose at least 5 percent of their initial body weight, about 15 pounds on average (6.8 kilos); another 71 percent maintained its stable weight and weighed 15 percent to 5 percent more than before, with about 14 pounds (6.3 kilos) on average. THE LOST MORE KILOS weighing over
The mean age was higher in the group that lost weight and had more men and more income people in the group that neither added nor subtracted kilos. They acknowledge the authors, most of those who lost weight used to weigh more than the rest.
By measuring their psychological, looked like it had deteriorated in the three groups, but group members who lost weight were 80 percent more likely to be depressed than those who had not changed his clothing size.
The study does not prove that weight loss is the cause of depression, the authors, who actually believe that this mental disorder could be the cause and not the effect of weight loss.
"To lose weight a person has to eat less than they like, and possibly less than the people around you, and lose the pleasure of eating can be hard for them though as compensation going to lose a dress size and have better health "has recognized this expert.
Most ads on diets or weight loss programs often show happy people, happy to shed the extra kilos but now a new British study has found that those who manage to lose weight improve your physical health but have higher rates of depression.
This follows from the results of an investigation of University College London (UK) with results published in the latest issue PLoS One ', which aims to actually losing weight could cause a mood different than previously thought.
"We know that weight loss is difficult to achieve or maintain, so we wonder if this could partly explain the psychological effects were not entirely positive," acknowledged Jane Wardle, the lead author of the study.
The researchers used data from 1,979 men and women who are overweight and obese who were part of a longitudinal study on aging in the UK, so we all had more than 50 years.
Thus, they analyzed the height, weight and waist circumference of all participants, and a series of questionnaires were used to assess their mood. Also, your blood pressure and triglyceride level was measured to determine their cardiovascular risk.
At baseline, none of the participants had symptoms of depression, and as this was an observational study, researchers gave advice or instruct participants how to lose weight, but simply to count those who showed intent to do .
Four years later, 14 percent of participants were able to lose at least 5 percent of their initial body weight, about 15 pounds on average (6.8 kilos); another 71 percent maintained its stable weight and weighed 15 percent to 5 percent more than before, with about 14 pounds (6.3 kilos) on average. THE LOST MORE KILOS weighing over
The mean age was higher in the group that lost weight and had more men and more income people in the group that neither added nor subtracted kilos. They acknowledge the authors, most of those who lost weight used to weigh more than the rest.
By measuring their psychological, looked like it had deteriorated in the three groups, but group members who lost weight were 80 percent more likely to be depressed than those who had not changed his clothing size.
The study does not prove that weight loss is the cause of depression, the authors, who actually believe that this mental disorder could be the cause and not the effect of weight loss.
"To lose weight a person has to eat less than they like, and possibly less than the people around you, and lose the pleasure of eating can be hard for them though as compensation going to lose a dress size and have better health "has recognized this expert.
