Controversy about the treatment of obesity: Criticisms or challenges?

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1983 • 4,204 citations

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1952 • 1,475 citations

A Prospective Study of Obesity and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women

1990 • 1,429 citations

Medical Hazards of Obesity

1993 • 1,428 citations

Triggering of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Heavy Physical Exertion -- Protection against Triggering by Regular Exertion

1993 • 1,414 citations

Variations in mortality by weight among 750,000 men and women

1979 • 1,200 citations

Coronary Heart Disease in the Western Collaborative Group Study

1975 • 1,194 citations

Relationship of blood pressure, serum cholesterol, smoking habit, relative weight and ECG abnormalities to incidence of major coronary events: Final report of the pooling project

1978 • 951 citations

Health Implications of Overweight and Obesity in the United States

1985 • 919 citations

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1990 • 727 citations

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1993 • 700 citations

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2014 • 664 citations

Variability of Body Weight and Health Outcomes in the Framingham Population

1991 • 638 citations

Dropping out of substance abuse treatment: A clinically oriented review

1992 • 637 citations

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1984 • 505 citations

Smoking, body weight, and their effects on smoking behavior: A comprehensive review of the literature.

1989 • 487 citations

Long-term Effects of Modest Weight Loss in Type II Diabetic Patients

1987 • 475 citations

Confronting the failure of behavioral and dietary treatments for obesity

1991 • 464 citations

Dieting and the search for the perfect body: Where physiology and culture collide

1991 • 449 citations

The 10-Year Incidence of Overweight and Major Weight Gain in US Adults

1990 • 431 citations

Treatment of obesity by very low calorie diet, behavior therapy, and their combination: a five-year perspective.

1989 • 426 citations

Characteristics affecting fibrinolytic activity and plasma fibrinogen concentrations.

1979 • 426 citations

Complications of Obesity

1985 • 394 citations

The Stigma of Obesity: The Consequences of Naive Assumptions Concerning the Causes of Physical Deviance

1980 • 392 citations

Textbook of endocrinology

1982 • 388 citations

Obese binge eaters: Affect, cognitions, and response to behavioral weight control.

1988 • 363 citations

Recidivism and self-cure of smoking and obesity.

1982 • 358 citations

The Effect of Weight Reduction on Left Ventricular Mass

1986 • 343 citations

Obesity: Theory and Therapy

1993 • 339 citations

Obese binge eaters: Affect, cognitions, and response to behavioral weight control.

1988 • 331 citations

The Risks of Surgery in Obese Patients

1986 • 330 citations

Effects of four maintenance programs on the long-term management of obesity.

1988 • 307 citations

Insensitivity to sample bias: Generalizing from atypical cases.

1980 • 295 citations

Recidivism and self-cure of smoking and obesity.

1982 • 290 citations

Obese people who seek treatment have different characteristics than those who do not seek treatment.

1993 • 290 citations

Popular induction: Information is not necessarily informative

1982 • 288 citations

The Influence of Obesity on Health

1974 • 283 citations

Obesity — Its Possible Effect on College Acceptance

1966 • 274 citations

Very Low-Calorie Diets

1993 • 268 citations

Body Weight Change, All-Cause Mortality, and Cause-specific Mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

1993 • 247 citations

Obesity, Atherosclerosis, and Coronary Artery Disease

1985 • 246 citations

LARGE FLUCTUATIONS IN BODY WEIGHT DURING YOUNG ADULTHOOD AND TWENTY-FWE-YEAR RISK OF CORONARY DEATH IN MEN

1989 • 245 citations

Principles Of Cognitive Psychology

1993 • 240 citations

Obesity: Theory and Therapy

1993 • 234 citations

Effect of length of treatment on weight loss.

1989 • 229 citations

Obese people who seek treatment have different characteristics than those who do not seek treatment.

1993 • 226 citations

The interrelationship of serum cholesterol, hypertension, body weight, and risk of coronary disease

1964 • 219 citations

Obesity: Understanding and treating a serious, prevalent, and refractory disorder.

1982 • 218 citations

Improving long-term weight loss: Pushing the limits of treatment

1987 • 203 citations

Weight and mortality in finnish men

1989 • 199 citations

'BACTERURITEST' STRIPS

1976 • 194 citations

Obesity treatment: The high cost of false hope

1991 • 188 citations

Controlled trial of very low calorie diet, behavior therapy, and their combination in the treatment of obesity.

1986 • 185 citations

THE RELATION OF CORONARY DISEASE, STROKE, AND MORTALITY TO WEIGHT IN YOUTH AND IN MIDDLE AGE

1983 • 183 citations

Use and Abuse of Appetite-Suppressant Drugs in the Treatment of Obesity

1993 • 183 citations

Handbook of Eating Disorders: Physiology, Psychology, and Treatment of Obesity, Anorexia, and Bulimia

1987 • 182 citations

Overweight as a social disability with medical implications

1969 • 178 citations

Morbid Obesity and Related Health Risks

1985 • 178 citations

Compliance of pediatric and adolescent cancer patients

1986 • 176 citations

The heterogeneity of obesity: fitting treatments to individuals

1991 • 174 citations

Coping with chronic disease : research and applications

1983 • 171 citations

Obesity: Understanding and treating a serious, prevalent, and refractory disorder.

1982 • 169 citations

Weight gain following smoking cessation.

1993 • 163 citations

Controlled trial of very low calorie diet, behavior therapy, and their combination in the treatment of obesity.

1986 • 160 citations

Why treatments for obesity don’t last

1991 • 157 citations

Treatment of the seriously obese patient

1992 • 155 citations

Weight Loss and Subsequent Death in a Cohort of U.S. Adults

1993 • 153 citations

Benefits and Adverse Effects of Weight Loss: Observations from the Framingham Study

1993 • 147 citations

Behavior therapy for obesity: An evaluation of treatment outcome

1980 • 145 citations

Weight Loss and Mortality in a National Cohort of Adults, 1971–1987

1992 • 143 citations

Effects of parental involvement in behavioral weight loss therapy for preadolescents

1984 • 140 citations

Rules for Reasoning

2013 • 140 citations

Mortality and Weight: Insured Lives and the American Cancer Society Studies

1985 • 137 citations

A school-based behavior modification, nutrition education, and physical activity program for obese children

1982 • 135 citations

Three-year follow-up of the treatment of obesity by very low calorie diet, behavior therapy, and their combination.

1988 • 134 citations

Skills training in a cardiovascular health education campaign.

1980 • 133 citations

Weight gain following smoking cessation.

1993 • 130 citations

Obesity and cardiac performance

1964 • 130 citations

Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 1990

1990 • 129 citations

Three-year follow-up of the treatment of obesity by very low calorie diet, behavior therapy, and their combination.

1988 • 126 citations

Improving the Long-Term Management of Obesity: Theory, Research, and Clinical Guidelines

1992 • 126 citations

Handbook of Eating Disorders: Physiology, Psychology, and Treatment of Obesity, Anorexia, and Bulimia

1986 • 126 citations

A Multicenter Evaluation of a Proprietary Weight Reduction Program for the Treatment of Marked Obesity

1992 • 125 citations

Treatment of the Seriously Obese Patient

1993 • 123 citations

Glucose tolerance and coronary heart disease: Helsinki Policemen Study

1979 • 122 citations

Prevalence of obesity: a comparative survey in France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

1992 • 118 citations

Risk factors for ischaemic vascular death for men in the Stockholm prospective study

1980 • 118 citations

Binge eating and outcome of behavioral treatment of obesity: a preliminary report

1984 • 112 citations

Skills training in a cardiovascular health education campaign.

1980 • 109 citations

The naturalistic history of bulimia nervosa: Extraordinarily high rates of chronicity, relapse, recurrence, and psychosocial morbidity

1992 • 106 citations

Attitudes toward obesity and the obese among professionals

1979 • 106 citations

Efficacy of a brief group psychoeducational intervention for bulimia nervosa

1991 • 105 citations

Self-regulatory failure: A review with clinical implications

1987 • 104 citations

Pregnancy, weight cycling and weight gain in obesity.

1992 • 101 citations

A comparison of three behavioral programs for the control of obesity in children

1977 • 100 citations

Weight Cycling in Humans: A Review of the Literature

1992 • 96 citations

Fat Chance! The Myth of Dieting Explained

1992 • 91 citations

Diet and exercise training effects on resting metabolic rate.

1985 • 91 citations

A ten-year follow-up of weight change in severely obese subjects treated in a combined behavioural modification programme.

1992 • 87 citations

Weight cycling and cardiovascular risk factors in obese men and women

1992 • 84 citations

Multidisciplinary treatment of obesity with a protein-sparing modified fast: results in 668 outpatients.

1985 • 84 citations

The Association between Weight Loss and Increased Longevity: A Review of the Evidence

1993 • 78 citations

Obesity: its relation to anaesthesia

1975 • 73 citations

Exercise reverses depressed metabolic rate produced by severe caloric restriction

1989 • 70 citations

Behavior therapy for obesity: A quantitative review of the effects of selected treatment characteristics on outcome

1986 • 70 citations

Body weight reduction necessary to attain normotension in the overweight hypertensive patient.

1981 • 70 citations

Dietary Treatments of Obesity

1987 • 68 citations

On Facing the Generalization Problem: The Study of Self-Regulatory Failure

1982 • 62 citations

Patient compliance and medication perception

1986 • 62 citations

Use of programmed instruction in teaching self-management skills to overweight adults

1976 • 61 citations

Follow-up of effects of choice of mediator and target of reinforcement on weight loss

1979 • 60 citations

Preventing relapse in obesity through posttreatment maintenance systems: Comparing the relative efficacy of two levels of therapist support

1991 • 59 citations

Metabolic consequences of dieting and exercise in the treatment of obesity.

1984 • 57 citations

Prejudice against Obese Renters

1977 • 57 citations

PERSPECTIVES IN BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE: EATING, SLEEPING AND SEX

1991 • 56 citations

Obesity, theory and therapy. 2nd ed

1993 • 53 citations

Long-term follow-up of patients attending a combination very-low calorie diet and behaviour therapy weight loss programme.

1992 • 52 citations

Selective attrition causes overestimates of treatment effects in studies of weight loss

1987 • 51 citations

The Beverly Hills eating disorder: The mass marketing of anorexia nervosa

1982 • 50 citations

The problem of creating habits: Establishing health-protective dental behaviors.

1992 • 49 citations

Examination of pretreatment predictors of attrition in a VLCD and behavior therapy weight-loss program

1993 • 48 citations

1983 Height and Weight Tables

1983 • 47 citations

Whether obesity should be treated.

1993 • 46 citations

Heterogeneity of clinical presentation among obese individuals seeking treatment

1990 • 39 citations

Health implications of obesity: an alternative view

1987 • 38 citations

Evaluation of an intensive weight control program using a priori criteria to determine outcome.

1992 • 37 citations

The problem of creating habits: Establishing health-protective dental behaviors.

1992 • 36 citations

Weight Cycling: A Review of the Animal Literature

1993 • 35 citations

Distressed binge eaters as a distinct subgroup among obese individuals

1991 • 34 citations

Whether obesity should be treated.

1993 • 32 citations

Beyond dieting : psychoeducational interventions for chronically obese women : a non-dieting approach

1990 • 31 citations

Effects of weight cycling and metabolic control in male outpatients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

1990 • 30 citations

Medical complications of severe obesity: importance of treatment by very-low-calorie diets: intermediate and long-term effects.

1981 • 29 citations

Natural history of obesity in 6,946 women between 50 and 59 years of age.

1980 • 28 citations

Eating Disorders among Athletes: Research and Recommendations

1991 • 27 citations

Research on Eating Behavior and Obesity: Where Does it Fit in Personality and Social Psychology?

1977 • 24 citations

Review of Perspectives in Behavioral Medicine: Eating, Sleeping, and Sex.

1990 • 23 citations

Weight loss programs: Failing to meet ethical standards?

1991 • 21 citations

Sample size in clinical outcome research: The case of behavioral weight control

1984 • 17 citations

Community reactions to deinstitutionalization.

1979 • 16 citations

Fat chance! The myth of dieting explained

1993 • 13 citations

Effects of weight cycling and metabolic control in male outpatients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

1990 • 13 citations

Elements of effective weight control programs: Implications for exercise and sport psychology

1992 • 13 citations

Effect of obesity and weight reduction in hypertension.

1990 • 13 citations

Ethics of obesity treatment: Implications for dietitians

1991 • 11 citations

Health Risks of Obesity

1992 • 10 citations

Is Obesity a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease?

1992 • 10 citations

Stages of change in successful weight control: A clinically derived model

1992 • 9 citations

On publishing controversy: Norman R. F. Maier and the genesis of seizures.

1993 • 8 citations

Sickle-cell Trait and Altitude

1972 • 7 citations

Weight Loss Through Persistence: Making Science Work for You

1994 • 7 citations

On publishing controversy: Norman R. F. Maier and the genesis of seizures.

1993 • 5 citations

Beginner's Mind: Trying to Learn Something About Obesity

1991 • 4 citations

Recidivism and self-cure of obesity: A test of Schacter's hypothesis in diabetic patients.

1987 • 4 citations

Recidivism and self-cure of obesity: A test of Schacter's hypothesis in diabetic patients.

1987 • 2 citations