Gary D Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3934823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary D Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary D |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3960-0332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Qualitative inquiry with persons with obesity about weight management in primary care and referrals
Introduction: Referrals to evidence-based weight management in the community-commercial sector are aligned with clinical recommendations but underutilized. Methods: This qualitative study explored patients' perceptions and expectations about obesity treatment in primary care and referral to community-commercial sector programs. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of US persons with obesity via telephone. Audiotape t…
“The most hurtful thing I've ever experienced”: A qualitative examination of the nature of experiences of weight stigma by family members
Family members are some of the most common sources of weight stigma reported by youth and adults with higher body weight; however, little is known about the ways in which weight stigma manifests from different family members. To better understand the nature of weight stigma by family members, the current study qualitatively examined women's retrospective accounts of these experiences. Participants were 410 U.S. adult women engaged in a commercial…
Prevalence and correlates of weight bias internalization in weight management: A multinational study
Weight bias internalization (WBI) is an understudied form of internalized stigma, particularly among treatment-seeking adults with overweight/obesity. The current study surveyed 13,996 adults currently engaged in weight management in the first multinational study of WBI. From May to July 2020, participants in six Western countries completed the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS-M) and measures of weight change, health behaviors, ps…
Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative and Students’ Breakfast Consumption Behaviors: A Group Randomized Trial
Objectives. To identify the effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC) initiative on the foods and drinks students consume in the morning. Methods. Sixteen public schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that provide universal breakfast participated in a group randomized trial to examine the effects of BIC with complementary nutrition promotion between 2013 and 2016. Control schools (n = 8) offered breakfast in the cafeteria before school. Baseli…
Distressed or not distressed? A mixed methods examination of reactions to weight stigma and implications for emotional wellbeing and internalized weight bias
Examining the pattern of new foods and beverages consumed during obesity treatment to inform strategies for self-monitoring intake
What Matters in Love: Reflections on the Relationship between Love and Persons
In Reasons and Persons , Derek Parfit takes issue with Bernard Williams’ view of the relation between love and identity. Williams thought that, in a world where there were several co-existing replicas of one’s beloved, our current conception of love would begin to crumble. Parfit agrees with Williams in the branching case of replication, but thought that, where replication takes a non-branching form, our ordinary view of love would remain intact.…
Characteristics of tobacco purchases in urban corner stores
In low-income, urban corner store settings, 87% of purchases did not include tobacco; most tobacco purchases did not include the sale of non-tobacco items and spending on non-tobacco items was similar whether or not tobacco was purchased. These findings can help inform retail-level tobacco sales decisions, such as voluntary discontinuation of tobacco products or future public health policies that target tobacco sales. The results challenge prevai…
Comparison of Commercial and Self-Initiated Weight Loss Programs in People With Prediabetes: A Randomized Control Trial
Objectives. To determine if a widely available weight-management program (Weight Watchers) could achieve sufficient weight loss in persons with prediabetes compared with a Diabetes Prevention Program–based individual counseling program supported by National Diabetes Education Program materials. Methods. We conducted an individual, randomized intervention trial in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2013 to 2014, in 225 persons with prediabetes. We compared…
Consumer taste tests and milk preference in low-income, urban supermarkets
Objective To explore shoppers’ responses to the taste of different types of cow’s milk in a blind taste test and to examine their willingness to purchase lower-fat milk as part of an in-store marketing intervention. Design Participants were recruited on-site in the supermarket to participate in a blind taste test of three varieties of cow’s milk and asked to guess what type they sampled. Setting The taste testing was conducted as part of the Heal…
Corner store purchases made by adults, adolescents and children: Items, nutritional characteristics and amount spent
Objective Corner stores, also known as bodegas, are prevalent in low-income urban areas and primarily stock high-energy foods and beverages. Little is known about individual-level purchases in these locations. The purpose of the present study was to assess corner store purchases (items, nutritional characteristics and amount spent) made by children, adolescents and adults in a low-income urban environment. Design Evaluation staff used 9238 interc…
Snacks are not food”. Low-income, urban mothers' perceptions of feeding snacks to their preschool-aged children
Breakfast patterns among low-income, ethnically-diverse 4th-6thgrade children in an urban area
NCT01924130 from http://clinicaltrials.gov
Corner Store and Commuting Patterns of Low-Income, Urban Elementary School Students
Background: While there has been considerable focus on the school environment in the context of childhood obesity, less is known about the environments around the school, particularly in low-income, urban neighborhoods. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess students’ corner store and commuting habits before and after school in a low-income, urban environment. Design: This was a cross-sectional study. Setting/Participants: Participants …
Exploration of “Food Addiction” in overweight and obese treatment-seeking adults
Small Retailer Perspectives of the 2009 Women, Infants and Children Program Food Package Changes
This research provides vendor perspectives on the 2009 WIC policy changes and may enhance policy implementation directed at increasing healthy food availability, particularly in urban communities
Determinants of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain in Urban, Low-Income Women
Stocking characteristics and perceived increases in sales among small food store managers/owners associated with the introduction of new food products approved by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Pr…
Objective The present study assessed the impact of the 2009 food packages mandated by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on perceived sales, product selection and stocking habits of small, WIC-authorized food stores. Design A cross-sectional study involving in-depth interviews with store managers/owners. Setting Small, WIC-authorized food stores in eight major cities in the USA. Subjects Fifty-two st…
Factor structure of the Emotional Eating Scale in overweight and obese adults seeking treatment
Perceptions of Low-Income African-American Mothers About Excessive Gestational Weight Gain
Healthy food availability in small urban food stores: A comparison of four US cities
Objective Given that small food stores may be important retail food sources in low-income urban communities, our objective was to examine cross-city comparative data documenting healthy food availability within such facilities, particularly those located in low-income areas and nearby schools. Design Food stores in Baltimore, Maryland; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Oakland, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania were selected for assessmen…
Romantic Love and Knowledge: Refuting the Claim of Egoism
Romantic love and its predecessor eros have both been characterized as forms of egoistic love. Part of this claim is concerned specifically with the relation between love and knowledge. Real love, it is claimed, is prior to knowledge and is not motivated by it. Romantic love and eros according to this view are egoistic in that they are motivated by a desire for knowledge. Agapic love characterized by bestowal represents a true form of love unmoti…
Reconciling Rules with Context: An Ethical Framework for Cultural Psychotherapy
In psychotherapy practice, a complex relationship exists between clients, culture and values. By drawing on psychology, philosophy and anthropology, we developed an interdisciplinary ethical framework for cultural psychotherapy. The framework, which reflects a hermeneutic approach, avoids the excesses of both an ‘objective’ view of ethics (and its relation to selfhood) and the social constructionist view, which tends towards relativism. To take t…
Primary Care Physicians’ Attitudes about Obesity and Its Treatment
Objective : This study was designed to assess physicians’ attitudes toward obese patients and the causes and treatment of obesity. Research Methods and Procedures : A questionnaire assessed attitudes in 2 geographically representative national random samples of 5000 primary care physicians. In one sample ( N = 2500), obesity was defined as a BMI of 30 to 40 kg/m 2 , and in the other ( N = 2500), obesity was defined as a BMI > 40. Results : Six hu…
Obesity: Responding to the global epidemic.
Snacks are not food”. Low-income, urban mothers' perceptions of feeding snacks to their preschool-aged children
Exploration of “Food Addiction” in overweight and obese treatment-seeking adults
Comparison of Commercial and Self-Initiated Weight Loss Programs in People With Prediabetes: A Randomized Control Trial
Objectives. To determine if a widely available weight-management program (Weight Watchers) could achieve sufficient weight loss in persons with prediabetes compared with a Diabetes Prevention Program–based individual counseling program supported by National Diabetes Education Program materials. Methods. We conducted an individual, randomized intervention trial in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2013 to 2014, in 225 persons with prediabetes. We compared…
Distressed or not distressed? A mixed methods examination of reactions to weight stigma and implications for emotional wellbeing and internalized weight bias
Factor structure of the Emotional Eating Scale in overweight and obese adults seeking treatment
Relation of State and Trait Anxiety to Essential Hypertension
This study used an objective measure of state and trait anxiety to clarify the relationship between level of anxiety and essential hypertension. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was administered to 30 hypertensives and their normotensive spouses. No significant differences were found between the hypertensives and normotensives on either measure of anxiety (state or trait). A significant correlation was noted, however, between the trait-anxiety s…
Retrospective Exaggeration of Symptoms: Vomiting After Gastric Surgery for Obesity
The possibility that patients may retrospectively exaggerate the severity of complaints that they have experienced has not been systematically investigated. The validity of retrospective reports was called into question by a study of vomiting following gastric bypass surgery for obesity. Such vomiting occurred relatively infrequently--no more than 3.4 times per week, even during the first postoperative month. At a 6-month follow-up, however, some…
Obesity: Responding to the global epidemic.
Primary Care Physicians’ Attitudes about Obesity and Its Treatment
Objective : This study was designed to assess physicians’ attitudes toward obese patients and the causes and treatment of obesity. Research Methods and Procedures : A questionnaire assessed attitudes in 2 geographically representative national random samples of 5000 primary care physicians. In one sample ( N = 2500), obesity was defined as a BMI of 30 to 40 kg/m 2 , and in the other ( N = 2500), obesity was defined as a BMI > 40. Results : Six hu…
Reconciling Rules with Context: An Ethical Framework for Cultural Psychotherapy
In psychotherapy practice, a complex relationship exists between clients, culture and values. By drawing on psychology, philosophy and anthropology, we developed an interdisciplinary ethical framework for cultural psychotherapy. The framework, which reflects a hermeneutic approach, avoids the excesses of both an ‘objective’ view of ethics (and its relation to selfhood) and the social constructionist view, which tends towards relativism. To take t…
Romantic Love and Knowledge: Refuting the Claim of Egoism
Romantic love and its predecessor eros have both been characterized as forms of egoistic love. Part of this claim is concerned specifically with the relation between love and knowledge. Real love, it is claimed, is prior to knowledge and is not motivated by it. Romantic love and eros according to this view are egoistic in that they are motivated by a desire for knowledge. Agapic love characterized by bestowal represents a true form of love unmoti…
Healthy food availability in small urban food stores: A comparison of four US cities
Objective Given that small food stores may be important retail food sources in low-income urban communities, our objective was to examine cross-city comparative data documenting healthy food availability within such facilities, particularly those located in low-income areas and nearby schools. Design Food stores in Baltimore, Maryland; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Oakland, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania were selected for assessmen…
Perceptions of Low-Income African-American Mothers About Excessive Gestational Weight Gain
Small Retailer Perspectives of the 2009 Women, Infants and Children Program Food Package Changes
This research provides vendor perspectives on the 2009 WIC policy changes and may enhance policy implementation directed at increasing healthy food availability, particularly in urban communities
Determinants of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain in Urban, Low-Income Women
Stocking characteristics and perceived increases in sales among small food store managers/owners associated with the introduction of new food products approved by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Pr…
Objective The present study assessed the impact of the 2009 food packages mandated by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on perceived sales, product selection and stocking habits of small, WIC-authorized food stores. Design A cross-sectional study involving in-depth interviews with store managers/owners. Setting Small, WIC-authorized food stores in eight major cities in the USA. Subjects Fifty-two st…
Factor structure of the Emotional Eating Scale in overweight and obese adults seeking treatment
Corner Store and Commuting Patterns of Low-Income, Urban Elementary School Students
Background: While there has been considerable focus on the school environment in the context of childhood obesity, less is known about the environments around the school, particularly in low-income, urban neighborhoods. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess students’ corner store and commuting habits before and after school in a low-income, urban environment. Design: This was a cross-sectional study. Setting/Participants: Participants …
Exploration of “Food Addiction” in overweight and obese treatment-seeking adults
Breakfast patterns among low-income, ethnically-diverse 4th-6thgrade children in an urban area
NCT01924130 from http://clinicaltrials.gov
Consumer taste tests and milk preference in low-income, urban supermarkets
Objective To explore shoppers’ responses to the taste of different types of cow’s milk in a blind taste test and to examine their willingness to purchase lower-fat milk as part of an in-store marketing intervention. Design Participants were recruited on-site in the supermarket to participate in a blind taste test of three varieties of cow’s milk and asked to guess what type they sampled. Setting The taste testing was conducted as part of the Heal…
Corner store purchases made by adults, adolescents and children: Items, nutritional characteristics and amount spent
Objective Corner stores, also known as bodegas, are prevalent in low-income urban areas and primarily stock high-energy foods and beverages. Little is known about individual-level purchases in these locations. The purpose of the present study was to assess corner store purchases (items, nutritional characteristics and amount spent) made by children, adolescents and adults in a low-income urban environment. Design Evaluation staff used 9238 interc…
Snacks are not food”. Low-income, urban mothers' perceptions of feeding snacks to their preschool-aged children
Comparison of Commercial and Self-Initiated Weight Loss Programs in People With Prediabetes: A Randomized Control Trial
Objectives. To determine if a widely available weight-management program (Weight Watchers) could achieve sufficient weight loss in persons with prediabetes compared with a Diabetes Prevention Program–based individual counseling program supported by National Diabetes Education Program materials. Methods. We conducted an individual, randomized intervention trial in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2013 to 2014, in 225 persons with prediabetes. We compared…
Characteristics of tobacco purchases in urban corner stores
In low-income, urban corner store settings, 87% of purchases did not include tobacco; most tobacco purchases did not include the sale of non-tobacco items and spending on non-tobacco items was similar whether or not tobacco was purchased. These findings can help inform retail-level tobacco sales decisions, such as voluntary discontinuation of tobacco products or future public health policies that target tobacco sales. The results challenge prevai…
Examining the pattern of new foods and beverages consumed during obesity treatment to inform strategies for self-monitoring intake
What Matters in Love: Reflections on the Relationship between Love and Persons
In Reasons and Persons , Derek Parfit takes issue with Bernard Williams’ view of the relation between love and identity. Williams thought that, in a world where there were several co-existing replicas of one’s beloved, our current conception of love would begin to crumble. Parfit agrees with Williams in the branching case of replication, but thought that, where replication takes a non-branching form, our ordinary view of love would remain intact.…
Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative and Students’ Breakfast Consumption Behaviors: A Group Randomized Trial
Objectives. To identify the effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC) initiative on the foods and drinks students consume in the morning. Methods. Sixteen public schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that provide universal breakfast participated in a group randomized trial to examine the effects of BIC with complementary nutrition promotion between 2013 and 2016. Control schools (n = 8) offered breakfast in the cafeteria before school. Baseli…
Distressed or not distressed? A mixed methods examination of reactions to weight stigma and implications for emotional wellbeing and internalized weight bias
Prevalence and correlates of weight bias internalization in weight management: A multinational study
Weight bias internalization (WBI) is an understudied form of internalized stigma, particularly among treatment-seeking adults with overweight/obesity. The current study surveyed 13,996 adults currently engaged in weight management in the first multinational study of WBI. From May to July 2020, participants in six Western countries completed the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS-M) and measures of weight change, health behaviors, ps…
Medicine (24 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (17 works) · Obesity (15 works) · Environmental health (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (10 works) · Overweight (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Demography (7 works)