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Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance

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THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN STARVATION

1951 • 2,071 citations

Seven Countries: A Multivariate Analysis of Death and Coronary Heart Disease.

1980 • 1,450 citations

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

1979 • 1,200 citations

Body Fat in Adult Man

1953 • 827 citations

Effect of Weight Loss without Salt Restriction on the Reduction of Blood Pressure in Overweight Hypertensive Patients

1978 • 768 citations

The Effect of Weight Reduction on Blood Pressure, Plasma Renin Activity, and Plasma Aldosterone Levels in Obese Patients

1981 • 657 citations

The Framingham Study. The Epidemiology of Atherosclerotic Disease.

1981 • 650 citations

Dietary obesity in adult rats: Similarities to hypothalamic and human obesity syndromes

1976 • 602 citations

Physical fitness training and mental health.

1981 • 539 citations

A study of social stereotype of body image in children.

1967 • 482 citations

Childhood Antecedents of Adult Obesity

1976 • 473 citations

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Trends in Fatness and the Origins of Obesity

1976 • 428 citations

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1980 • 405 citations

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Energy balance and obesity in man

1974 • 344 citations

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1972 • 344 citations

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1970 • 339 citations

Relative Importance of Inactivity and Overeating in the Energy Balance of Obese High School Girls

1956 • 337 citations

The Influence of Obesity on Health

1974 • 283 citations

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1971 • 271 citations

Evaluation and modification of exercise patterns in the natural environment

1980 • 269 citations

Obesity: adverse effects on health and longevity

1979 • 267 citations

Physical Activity of Obese and Nonobese Adolescent Girls Appraised by Motion Picture Sampling

1964 • 258 citations

Obesity and the Body Image: II. Age at Onset of Disturbances in the Body Image

1967 • 243 citations

Overweight as Social Deviance and Disability

1968 • 242 citations

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Effect of caloric restriction and excessive caloric intake on energy expenditure

1971 • 236 citations

Behavior Modification in the Treatment of Obesity

1979 • 224 citations

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1976 • 220 citations

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1981 • 217 citations

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1969 • 212 citations

Obesity and the Body Image: I. Characteristics of Disturbances in the Body Image of Some Obese Persons

1967 • 209 citations

Obesity, lipids, and glucose intolerance The Framingham Study

1979 • 209 citations

The effect of couples training and partner co-operativeness in the behavioral treatment of obesity

1978 • 208 citations

Response to Physical Activity Programs and Their Effects on Health Behavior

1970 • 200 citations

Atherosclerosis as a pediatric problem

1972 • 193 citations

Aerobic exercise and weight

1980 • 189 citations

Dieting and Depression Reexamined

1974 • 187 citations

Composition of weight lost during short-term weight reduction. Metabolic responses of obese subjects to starvation and low-calorie ketogenic and nonketogenic diets.

1976 • 180 citations

Outpatient treatments of obesity: a comparison of methodology and clinical results.

1979 • 176 citations

Behavior Therapy and Pharmacotherapy for Obesity

1981 • 173 citations

TREATING OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN THROUGH PARENTAL TRAINING AND CONTINGENCY CONTRACTING1

1975 • 166 citations

Exercise and obesity: Etiology, physiology, and intervention.

1982 • 162 citations

THEORETICAL, PRACTICAL, AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN BEHAVIORAL TREATMENTS OF OBESITY

1979 • 157 citations

Relationship of relative weight and body mass index to 14-year mortality in the Chicago Peoples Gas Company study

1975 • 155 citations

Comparison of Family-Based Behavior Modification and Nutrition Education for Childhood Obesity

1980 • 153 citations

Treating obesity in children and adolescents: a review.

1978 • 152 citations

Endocrine and Metabolic Adaptation to Obesity and Starvation

1968 • 150 citations

Experimental Obesity I. Production of Obesity in Rats by Feeding High-Fat Diets

1955 • 145 citations

Behavior therapy for obesity: An evaluation of treatment outcome

1980 • 145 citations

Effect of Exercise Alone on the Weight of Obese Women

1975 • 145 citations

Physical Activity and Human Obesity

1960 • 143 citations

Obesity in America

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

1982 • 135 citations

Effect of an energy-reduced dietary regimen in relation to adipose tissue cellularity in obese women

1975 • 133 citations

Limitations of behavioral treatment of obesity: Review and analysis

1981 • 132 citations

Experimental obesity in man: cellular character of the adipose tissue

1971 • 132 citations

Effects on weight reduction of strong monetary contracts for calorie restriction or weight loss

1978 • 131 citations

Effects of weight changes produced by exercise, food restriction, or overeating on body composition

1969 • 128 citations

Weight Reduction in Obesity by Outpatient Semistarvation

1974 • 123 citations

Estimates of food quantity and calories: errors in self-report among obese patients

1982 • 117 citations

Exercise tolerance and physical training of non-selected patients after myocardial infarction.

1973 • 117 citations

Self-directed weight control through eating and exercise

1973 • 115 citations

Couples Training, Pharmacotherapy, and Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Obesity

1981 • 115 citations

Caloric regulation and food preference in normal, hyperphagic, and aphagic rats.

1969 • 112 citations

Clinical Use of a Protein-Sparing Modified Fast

1978 • 112 citations

Differential Changes in Plasma High-Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol Levels in Obese Men and Women During Weight Reduction

1981 • 112 citations

Unexpected decrease in plasma high density lipoprotein cholesterol with weight loss

1979 • 112 citations

Physical exercise rehabilitation: Long-term dropout rate in cardiac patients

1980 • 109 citations

Increased efficiency of food utilization following weight loss

1978 • 108 citations

The Pain of Obesity.

1976 • 104 citations

BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT OF EXERCISE: CONTRACTING FOR AEROBIC POINTS

1979 • 104 citations

Self-perceptions of the stigma of overweight in relationship to weight-losing patterns

1979 • 102 citations

Reliability and validity of self-report and observers' estimates of relative weight

1979 • 98 citations

Overweight; causes, cost, and control

1968 • 91 citations

Comparison of self-reported height and weight with controlled height and weight in women and men.

1981 • 91 citations

Metabolic Aspects of a Protein-Sparing Modified Fast in the Dietary Management of Prader-Willi Obesity

1977 • 90 citations

High Attrition Rates in Commercial Weight Reduction Programs

1981 • 89 citations

Changing lifestyles to improve health

1977 • 89 citations

Attendance and Fitness in Aerobics Exercise

1980 • 88 citations

A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF LIMITATION OF FOOD INTAKE AND THE METHOD OF FEEDING ON THE RATE OF WEIGHT GAIN DURING HYPOTHALAMIC OBESITY IN THE ALBINO RAT

1946 • 84 citations

The obese eating style: Bites, beliefs, and behavior modification

1975 • 82 citations

Reducing adolescent obesity through a school health program

1979 • 76 citations

The treatment of obesity

1973 • 75 citations

Methodological considerations in treatment outcome research on obesity.

1978 • 74 citations

Behavioral Treatment of Obesity in Children

1978 • 74 citations

An effective weight control program in a public school system.

1970 • 73 citations

Role of spouse involvement in the behavioral treatment of overweight women.

1981 • 71 citations

Husband involvement in the behavioral treatment of overweight women: initial effects and long-term follow-up.

1980 • 71 citations

Behavior therapy for obesity: Including family members in the treatment process

1978 • 70 citations

Comparison of ovarian and hypothalamic obesity syndromes in the female rat: Effects of diet palability on food intake and body weight.

1977 • 66 citations

The dropout problem: Reducing attrition in obesity research

1976 • 65 citations

Work-site treatment for obesity

1980 • 63 citations

Measurement of Subcutaneous Fat Cells from Obese Patients

1970 • 61 citations

Inactivity as a major factor in adult obesity

1967 • 59 citations

Risk Factor Intervention for Health Maintenance

1978 • 59 citations

Behavior and weight changes in three obese adolescents

1981 • 57 citations

Physical training in human hyperplastic obesity. IV. Effects on the hormonal status

1977 • 56 citations

Adaptation to changes in caloric intake.

1978 • 53 citations

Defense of a lowered weight maintenance level by lateral hypothamically lesioned rats: Evidence from a restriction-refeeding regimen

1977 • 53 citations

Hypertension in childhood: A review

1976 • 47 citations

Evaluation and component analysis of a comprehensive weight control program.

1981 • 47 citations

Supplemented fasting in the treatment of obesity and diabetes

1979 • 45 citations

Effects of sex of subject and spouse involvement on weight loss in a behavioral treatment program: A retrospective investigation

1979 • 43 citations

A behavioral approach to the treatment of adolescent obesity

1977 • 40 citations

Weight control and nutrition education programs in occupational settings.

1980 • 40 citations

The Treatment of Obesity in Adolescents Using Behavioral Self-Control

1976 • 39 citations

Obesity in Urban Black Adolescents of High and Low Relative Weight at 1 Year of Age

1978 • 39 citations

The Physical and Emotional Benefits of Social Support: Application to Obesity, Smoking, and Alcoholism

1982 • 36 citations

Involving husbands in treatment of obesity—Effects on weight loss, depression, and marital satisfaction

1980 • 36 citations

Behavior therapy and behavior change: uncertainties in programs for weight control

1978 • 34 citations

The behavioral control of obesity: A descriptive analysis of a large-scale program

1979 • 32 citations

Effects of very restrictive high-protein diets with special reference to the nitrogen balance.

1981 • 24 citations

A Positive Strategy for the Nation's Health

1979 • 18 citations

Influence of obesity on longevity in the aged.

1980 • 18 citations

Weight Control: The Behavioural Strategies

1981 • 17 citations

Behavior Modification in the Treatment of Obesity

1978 • 11 citations

Differences in the degree of overweight: A note on its importance

1981 • 9 citations

A methodological analysis of research on adherence and weight loss: Reply to Brownell and Stunkard (1978)

1981 • 9 citations

Assessment of human obesity: The measurement of body composition

1979 • 6 citations

Exercise and Obesity

1978 • 6 citations

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1955 • 0 citations