Restrained eating and leptin levels in overweight preadolescent girls
| Autor: | Reinhold G. Laessle, Karl-Martin Pirke, H Wurmser |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Leptin
medicine.medical_specialty Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Overweight Significant negative correlation Childhood obesity Behavioral Neuroscience Eating Internal medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Obesity Child Retrospective Studies business.industry digestive oral and skin physiology medicine.disease Positive energy Endocrinology El Niño Female medicine.symptom business Energy Metabolism Weight gain |
| Zdroj: | Physiologybehavior. 70(1-2) |
| ISSN: | 0031-9384 |
| Popis: | The relationship between restrained eating and leptin levels 6 months later was investigated. Twenty obese girls, ages 8-12 years, were studied. Degree of restrained eating was assessed with the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire. Serum leptin levels were determined 6 months after the measurement of cognitive restraint. Restraint score and leptin levels showed a significant negative correlation (r = -0.43) The correlation was also significant when controlling for fat mass (r = -0.61), which is the strongest biological predictor of leptin levels. If lower leptin levels cause a diminished energy expenditure, then paradoxically, restrained eating might be responsible for weight gain in obese individuals because of its promotion of a positive energy balance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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