The pain of weight gain: self-experimentation with overfeeding
- 1 January 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 111 (1), 17-20
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqz264
Abstract
The Vermont overfeeding studies were published 50 y ago and began a change in the acceptance of obesity as a bona fide area of academic interest. This article chronicles the experience of the author with acute weight gain while overfeeding, in the context of current obesity research, and presents a glimpse of things to come. The pain associated with acute overeating is illustrated by the firsthand experience of the author. The rapid return to normal weight contrasts with the difficulty that almost all people with obesity experience when they attempt to lose and maintain weight loss. Contrasting the response to overfeeding of individuals who are "resistant" to obesity with those who are obesity prone provides an avenue for unraveling the difficulties people with obesity face when they try to lose weight.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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