Weight suppression and risk of future increases in body mass: effects of suppressed resting metabolic rate and energy expenditure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Weight suppression, which reflects the difference between the highest previous weight and current weight, has predicted future increases in body mass index (BMI) and bulimic pathology; however, the mechanisms underlying these predictive effects are unclear.

Objective

The current study sought to test whether weight suppression predicts future increases in BMI and bulimic symptoms and whether suppressed resting metabolic rate (RMR) and suppressed total energy expenditure (TEE) drive these relations.

Design

A randomly selected subsample of 91 young women in their first year of college with body image concerns completed an RMR assessment--a doubly labeled water assessment of TEE--and provided data on weight suppression and change in BMI and bulimic symptoms ove

SUBMITTER: Stice E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3127521 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature