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| Title |
Control of Body Weight by Eating Behavior in Children
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Pediatrics, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fped.2015.00089 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Modjtaba Zandian, Cecilia Bergh, Ioannis Ioakimidis, Maryam Esfandiari, Julian Shield, Stafford Lightman, Michael Leon, Per Södersten |
| Abstract |
Diet, exercise, and pharmacological interventions have limited effects in counteracting the worldwide increase in pediatric body weight. Moreover, the promise that individualized drug design will work to induce weight loss appears to be exaggerated. We suggest that the reason for this limited success is that the cause of obesity has been misunderstood. Body weight is mainly under external control; our brain permits us to eat under most circumstances, and unless the financial or physical cost of food is high, eating and body weight increase by default. When energy-rich, inexpensive foods are continually available, people need external support to maintain a healthy body weight. Weight loss can thereby be achieved by continuous feedback on how much and how fast to eat on a computer screen. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 3 | 30% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 20% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 1 | 10% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 60% |
| Scientists | 3 | 30% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 36 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 36 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 9 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 11% |
| Librarian | 3 | 8% |
| Researcher | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 19% |
| Unknown | 5 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 31% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 11% |
| Psychology | 4 | 11% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 11% |
| Sports and Recreations | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 4 | 11% |
| Unknown | 6 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 October 2015.
All research outputs
#5,406,033
of 22,830,751 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Pediatrics
#828
of 5,961 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#67,179
of 283,771 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Pediatrics
#7
of 31 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,830,751 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 76th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,961 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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