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Desire Resistance and Desire Reduction in Public Health Approaches to Obesity
Dutton, Gareth R. PhD; Fontaine, Kevin R. PhD; Allison, David B. PhD
Gareth R. Dutton, PhD, is an associate professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine and is member of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Kevin R. Fontaine, PhD, is professor and chair of the Department of Health Behavior and is member of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
David B. Allison, PhD, is the Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health, director of the Office of Energetics, and director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
This work is supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants P30DK056336 and K23DK081607.
The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or any other organization.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Correspondence: Gareth R. Dutton, PhD, 1717 11th Ave S, Medical Towers 615, Birmingham, AL 35205 ([email protected]).
Nutrition Today: September/October 2015 - Volume 50 - Issue 5 - p 258-262
doi: 10.1097/NT.0000000000000116
A variety of public health and community-level interventions targeting health policy, the environment, and individual behaviors have been developed to reduce or prevent obesity. These interventions typically emphasize either (1) "desire reduction" (D-RED) strategies that attempt to reduce the desire to consume energy or reduce the desire to be sedentary or (2) "desire resistance" (D-RES) strategies that help individuals effectively resist the desire to consume energy or resist the desire to be sedentary. By focusing mostly on environmental modifications, public health interventions may be overemphasizing D-RED to the near exclusion of D-RES. Because it is impossible to eliminate all food- and activity-related stimuli, public health interventions may benefit from a more balanced approach that includes both D-RED and D-RES strategies. Future research is needed to explore the utility of public health approaches that incorporate D-RES efforts into obesity reduction programs.
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Nutrition Today50(5):258-262, September/October 2015.
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