{"id":68314,"date":"2005-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-researcher-to-test-non-dieting-approach-to-reducing-weight-gain-among-young-adults\/"},"modified":"2005-01-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T00:00:00","slug":"uri-researcher-to-test-non-dieting-approach-to-reducing-weight-gain-among-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/01\/uri-researcher-to-test-non-dieting-approach-to-reducing-weight-gain-among-young-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 researcher to test \u201cnon-dieting\u201d approach to reducing weight gain among young adults"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t$1.1 million USDA grant targets weight gain that occurs in early 20s<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — January 5, 2005 — When young adults move away from home for the first time, they are often responsible for their own food preparation for the first time. It\u2019s also when they find increased demands on their time, an increased frequency of eating out, and a decrease in physical activity.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe transition also results in a decade of the most rapid weight gain of any period in their lives.<\/p>\n


\n\tSo Geoffrey Greene, a professor of nutrition at the 溏心vlog免费B站, and colleagues in eight states are developing a web-based intervention designed to provide young adults with the skills to resist this weight gain.<\/p>\n


\n\tThanks to a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the researchers are testing a \u201cnon-dieting\u201d approach that has proven effective with middle-aged, overweight women but is untested on young adults.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWhat we\u2019re creating is a lifestyle intervention that focuses on encouraging people to become aware of their hunger and satiety (full-ness) so they can practice \u2018in-tune\u2019 eating,\u201d Greene said. \u201cWe want people to be aware of their internal signals and eat when they\u2019re hungry and stop when they\u2019re full. It\u2019s essentially what we all did as pre-schoolers before we were told by our parents to eat everything on our plate.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe program will encourage participants to keep track of how hungry they are during the day so they become more aware of their feelings of hunger.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s mindful eating,\u201d Greene explained. \u201cWhen we eat, we should pay attention to the tastes, the smells, the eating environment, and enjoy eating. A lot of what we do instead is not mindful at all \u2013 we eat quickly in the car and don\u2019t pay attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tGreene says that dieting should be avoided because of the psychological cost it incurs. \u201cThe process of restraining ourselves \u2013 eating too little or depriving ourselves \u2013 creates pressure to overeat when we go off the diet,\u201d said the Narragansett resident. \u201cBy not dieting we remove that pressure and we stop the unhealthy yo-yo effect of frequent weight gain and loss that happens when we go on a diet and then go off it.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAn important component of this approach is that we must pay attention to our eating.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe four-year research project will involve 2,000 students at 溏心vlog免费B站 and universities in Alabama, Maine, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The researchers will begin by conducting focus groups with students to determine what kind of interventions will be effective with the young adult audience.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cYoung men are not prone to dieting, yet they still have the risk of weight gain in their 20s,\u201d Greene said. \u201cSo we need to figure out what they perceive will be useful interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe program will include a physical activity component that is designed to get participants to engage in activity they can sustain once they leave college.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s a woefully under-researched subject,\u201d said Greene. \u201cMost interventions designed to increase physical activity are specific to a particular location \u2013 a park, a fitness center. Very few are home-based that participants can do on their own, and none are transferable to other locations they may move to in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tIf the on-line program is successful, Greene said it could ultimately be incorporated into school curricula or used by anyone with a computer.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

$1.1 million USDA grant targets weight gain that occurs in early 20s KINGSTON, R.I. — January 5, 2005 — When young adults move away from home for the first time, they are often responsible for their own food preparation for the first time. It\u2019s also when they find increased demands on their time, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}