Entirely Predictable...

Mr_Knight

But now a new study says people actually make poorer diet choices when they think of obesity as a disease.

Your team did three separate experiments with more than 700 participants. And you found that obese participants who read a news article about the AMA declaring obesity a disease were less likely to be concerned about their weight and more likely to choose high calorie food.

What we think is going on here is that the disease message shifts people's beliefs regarding the controllability of body weight.

http://health.wusf.usf.edu/post/psychological-consequences-calling-obesity-disease

Cortelli

Re: Thread Title

Memo: Indeed.