Responses of Extremely Obese Patients to Starvation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19302091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | EDWARD J KOLLAR (UCLA Health), Roland Atkinson (UCLA Health), ROLAND M ATKINSON |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 217-245 |
| Publication date | 1966-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychosomatic Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3174 • E-ISSN: 1534-7796 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00006842-196605000-00004 |
| PMID | 4380331 |
| OpenAlex | W2072521983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In a pilot study of the psychological and physiological effects of intermittent fasting (periods up to 80 days) in the reduction of superobese patients to normal weight, none of the depressive-inhibitory phenomena reported in starving normalweight humans was observed, although the patients were kept fully ambulatory. Episodes of anxiety and depression were observed but were related to problems with family members, the doctor-patient relationship, or disturbances in the ward milieu and not to fasting or weight loss. Although it can be concluded that starvation is not harmful--psychologically or physiologically--in the treatment of obesity, further studies are necessary to show how effective it may be in terms of lasting effects
Ambulatory · Anxiety · Body weight · Depression (economics) · Obesity · Psychiatry · Starvation · Weight loss · Diet and metabolism studies · Dietary Effects on Health · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Physiology · Psychology
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A Survey of Biographical and Psychological Features in Extraordinary Fatness
Follow-Up of Patients Starved for Obesity
The Response of Obese Patients to Weight Reduction
Relationship of Salivation in Humans to Deprivation, Inhibition and the Encephalization of Hunger
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1967 - 1981 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |