Below are some articles (some will be full-text, some are just abstracts) that go into some of the controversies around dieting, weight, and eating.
- A qualitative investigation of dieting, weight loss, and physical exercise, in obese individuals – Nutr J, 2008
- Adolescent beverage habits and changes in weight over time – Am J Clin Nutr, 2009
- Bariatric Surgery May Just Mask Diabetes, Am Assoc of Clinical Endocrinologists, 2010
- Behavior modification in the treatment of obesity: the problem of maintaining weight loss – Arch Gen Psychiatry, 1979
- Benefits and adverse effects of weight loss – Ann Intern Med, 1993
- Biomedical rationale for a wellness approach to obesity – J Soc Issues, 1999
- BMI and all-cause mortality among Japanese older adults – Obesity, 2010
- BMI and mortality: results from a national longitudinal study of Canadian adults – Obesity, 2010
- Body energy homeostasis – Appetite, 2008
- Body image of chronic dieters – J Am Diet Assoc, 2004
- Body weight dynamics and their association with physical function and mortality in older adults – J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2010
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic risk factors in obesity – Curr Opin Lipidol, 2009
- Changes in Energy Expenditure Resulting from Altered Body Weight – NEJM, 1995
- Confronting the failure of behavioral and dietary treatments for obesity – Clinical Psychology Review, 1994
- Considerations regarding the genetics of obesity – Obesity, 2008
- Decreased energy levels can cause and sustain obesity – J Theor Biol, 2003
- Diet composition and energy balance in humans – Am J Clin Nutr, 1998
- Dieting Does Not Work, UCLA Researchers Report – Newsweek, 2007
- Does Perceived Weight Discrimination Affect Identity and Physical Health – Soc Psych Quarterly, 2011
- Does physical activity ameliorate the health hazards of obesity? – Br J Sports Med, 2009
- Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity – JAMA, 2005
- Fat Factors – New York Times, 2006
- Genes Take Charge, and Diets Fall by the Wayside – New York Times, 2007
- High body mass index does not predict mortality in older people – J Am Geriatr Soc, 2001
- High body mass index for age among US children and adolescents, 2003-2006 – JAMA, 2008
- How effective are traditional dietary and exercise interventions for weight loss? – Med Sci Sports Exerc, 1999
- Identification and characterization of metabolically benign obesity in humans – Arch Intern Med, 2008
- Internalization of weight bias: Implications for binge eating and emotional well-being – Obesity, 2007
- Is the energy homeostatis system inherently biased toward weight gain? – Diabetes, 2003
- Men's preferences in romantic partners: obesity vs addiction – Psychol Rep, 1995
- Modern Science Versus the Stigma of Obesity – Nature Medicine, 2004
- Myths about Diabetes, American Diabetes Association
- New NHLBI clinical guidelines for obesity and overweight: will they promote health? – Am J Public Health, 2000
- NIH Consensus Conference on Obesity: by Whom and for What? – J Nutr, 1987
- Normal Body Mass Index Rather than Obesity Predicts Greater Mortality in Elderly People – J Am Geriatr Soc, 2009
- Obesity, disordered eating, and eating disorders in a longitudinal study of adolescents – J Am Diet Assoc, 2006
- Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic? – Scientific American, 2005
- Obesity: still highly heritable after all these years – Am J Clin Nutr, 2008
- Physical activity energy expenditure has not declined since the 1980s and matches energy expenditures of wild mammals – Int J Obesity, 2008
- Portrayals of Overweight and Obese Individuals on Commercial Television – Am J Pub Health, 2003
- Position of the American Dietetic Association: total diet approach to communicating food and nutrition information – J Am Diet Assoc, 2007
- Presentation of Restrictive Eating Disorders in Children – Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 2011
- Reflections on Fat Acceptance: Lessons Learned from Privilege – Linda Bacon, NAAFA Keynote, 2009
- Retention rates and weight loss in a commercial weight loss program – Int J Obese (Lond), 2007
- Science of HAES
- Size Acceptance and Intuitive Eating Improve Health for Obese, Female Chronic Dieters – J Am Diet Assoc, 2005
- The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-related disease – BMC, 2008
- The Determinants of Health – World Health Organization, 2009
- The Epidemiology of Overweight and Obesity: Public Health Crisis or Moral Panic? – Int J Epidemiol, 2005
- The health at any size paradigm for obesity treatment: the scientific evidence – Obes Rev, 2001
- The influence of the stigma of obesity on overweight individuals – Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 2004
- The National Weight Control Registry: A Critique – J Nutr Educ Behav, 2005
- The Obese Without Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering – Arch Intern Med, 2008
- The relationship between media exposure and anti-fat attitudes: the role of dysfunctional appearance beliefs – Body Image, 2009
- The relationship between weight loss and all-cause mortality – J Am Geriatr Soc, 2002
- The stigma of obesity: a review and update – Obesity, 2009
- The Stigma of Obesity: Does Perceived Weight Discrimination Affect Identity and Physical Health? – Soc Psychol Quart, 2011
- The war on obesity: a social determinant of health – Health Promot J Austr, 2006
- They Starved That Others Be Better Fed – The Journal of Nutrition, 2005
- Weight bias among dietetics students: implications for treatment practices – J Am Diet Assoc, 2009
- Weight change and mortality among older Mexican Americans – Aging Clin Exp Res, 2006
- Weight change, initial BMI, and mortality among middle- and older-aged adults – Epidemiology, 2009
- Weight change, weight cycling and mortality – Eur J Epidemiol, 2007
- Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift – Nutrition Journal, 2011
Cochrane Reviews
- Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular disease, 2004
- Dietary advice for the prevention of type 2 diabetes, 2008
- Dietary advice for treatment of type 2 diabetes, 2007
- Dietary treatment for familial hypercholesterolaemia, 2001
- Effects of low sodium diet versus high sodium diet, 2004
- Exercise for Overweight or Obesity, 2006
- Exercise for type 2 diabetes, 2006
- Interventions for preventing eating disorders in children and adolescents, 2002
- Long-term non-pharmacological weight loss interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes, 2005