Taking action to lose weight: Toward an understanding of individual differences

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 185-194

  Annunziato, Rachel A ^a   Lowe, Michael R ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dieting; Help seeking; Obesity; Predictors; Treatment seeking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; DIET, REDUCING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33847287880     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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