Weight Maintenance: What’s Missing?
Abstract
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, but there are few proven strategies for either preventing further weight gain or producing permanent weight loss. Our first priority should be to prevent the gradual weight gain experienced by much of the population. Although this will require less behavior change than producing and maintaining weight loss, helping Americans make and sustain the behavior changes needed to prevent gradual weight increases will be challenging. Because approximately 65% of Americans are already overweight or obese, we must also develop effective strategies to help achieve and maintain an amount of weight loss that improves their health and quality of life. Our real challenge is not in helping people lose weight but in helping them keep it off. Many programs have been shown to produce weight loss but few, if any, have been successful in maintenance of weight loss. Our challenge is in understanding how to help people keep off the weight they can lose in several ways.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
HDL cholesterol concentration is inversely associated with risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
“The concentration of HDL cholesterol is inversely associated with the risk of developing CVD.15”
From Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations Revision 2006: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee (2006) · cites this paper as [15]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Cites
Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin
(2002) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejmoa012512 · Cited by 19,011 · see citing works
Obesity and the Environment: Where Do We Go from Here?
Hill, J. O., Wyatt, H. R., Reed, G. W., & Peters, J. C. (2003) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1079857 · Cited by 2,180 · see citing works
Self-citation
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Lichtenstein, A. H., Appel, L. J., Brands, M., Carnethon, M., Daniels, S., Franch, H. A., Franklin, B., Kris-Etherton, P., Harris, W. S., Howard, B., et al. (2006) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/circulationaha.106.176158 · Cited by 2,705 · see citing works
Healthy habits: efficacy of simple advice on weight control based on a habit-formation model
Lally, P., Chipperfield, A., & Wardle, J. (2008) · International Journal of Obesity · doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803771 · Cited by 250 · see citing works
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Mental Health: A Review
Himelein, M. J., & Thatcher, S. S. (2006) · Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey · doi:10.1097/01.ogx.0000243772.33357.84 · Cited by 239 · see citing works
Internet-Based Behavioral Interventions for Obesity: An Updated Systematic Review
Manzoni, G. M., Pagnini, F., Corti, S., Molinari, E., & Castelnuovo, G. (2011) · Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health · doi:10.2174/1745017901107010019 · Cited by 119 · see citing works
Weight Loss Maintenance Following a Primary Care Intervention for Low‐income Minority Women
Martin, P. D., Dutton, G. R., Rhode, P. C., Horswell, R. L., Ryan, D. H., & Brantley, P. J. (2008) · Obesity · doi:10.1038/oby.2008.399 · Cited by 100 · see citing works
Mollard, R. C., Luhovyy, B. L., Panahi, S., Nunez, M., Hanley, A., & Anderson, G. H. (2012) · British Journal Of Nutrition · doi:10.1017/s0007114512000712 · Cited by 97 · see citing works
Yancey, A. K., McCarthy, W. J., Harrison, G. G., Wong, W. K., Siegel, J. M., & Leslie, J. (2006) · Journal of Women's Health · doi:10.1089/jwh.2006.15.412 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
A small-changes approach reduces energy intake in free-living humans
Stroebele, N., de Castro, J. M., Stuht, J., Catenacci, V., Wyatt, H. R., & Hill, J. O. (2009) · Journal of the American College of Nutrition · doi:10.1080/07315724.2009.10719763 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
Self-citation
- Authors
- Hill, J. O., Thompson, H., & Wyatt, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hill, James O.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Dietetic Association
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-05
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 63-66
- ISSN
- 0002-8223 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1994490899
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 10.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the American Dietetic Association (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Pharmacy › Obesity and Health Practices
- Keywords
- weight maintenance, obesity, weight loss, weight gain prevention, behavior change, obesity prevention
- MeSH terms
- Body Weight, Dietetics, Humans, Life Style, Obesity, Primary Prevention, Time Factors, Weight Loss
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
