Obese Women More Impulsive Than Other Females, Study Sugge..

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Martin Levac wrote:

> Whatever caused obesity could also have caused the impulsive behavior. I
> put my money on carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are addictive. Eating carbs
> causes us to eat more carbs. Carbohydrates causes us to change our
> behavior i.e. eat more. Whatever argument they're putting up about
> people having a problem with food comes from the food itself, not from
> the person eating it.

That's true only up to a point. Where do you draw the line when
education should control behavior?
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On Nov 18, 7:59 am, Martin Levac wrote:
> George Orwell wrote:
> >http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081110164040.htm
>
> > ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2008) — A new study in the November issue
> > of the journal Appetite finds that obese women display
> > significantly weaker impulse control than normal-weight women,
> > but between obese and normal-weight men, the impulsivity levels
> > are nearly the same. The study was conducted by researchers in
> > the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of
> > Psychology.
>
> > UAB researchers conducted the study to see how obese and normal-
> > weight men and women differed in their decision-making skills,
> > specifically in delay discounting, the measure of how much an
> > individual is driven by immediate gratification versus the
> > willingness to wait for delayed but greater rewards.
>
> > In the study of 95 men and women, UAB researchers gave the
> > participants the choice of receiving varying hypothetical
> > amounts of money immediately or fixed hypothetical amounts of
> > money to be received after delays of two weeks, one month, six
> > months or one, three, five or 10 years. The hypothetical rewards
> > ranged from $1,000 to $50,000. The researchers found that obese
> > women discounted the value of future rewards at a rate three-to-
> > four times greater than that of normal-weight women, suggesting
> > greater impulsivity.
>
> > Obese men, however, and the male and female control subjects all
> > showed similar levels of delay discounting. The results were the
> > same even when the researchers controlled for differences in IQ
> > and income, both of which have been found to be related to
> > measures of impulsivity.
>
> > One explanation for the differences between men and women may be
> > found in a personality trait known as eating-related
> > disinhibition, which is the tendency to overeat in response to
> > certain situations or cues such as a big display of dessert,
> > said UAB researcher Rosalyn Weller, Ph.D., the study's principle
> > investigator. Previous studies have shown that those who score
> > higher in disinhibition have higher body mass indexes and gain
> > weight more easily, she said. However, men score lower in
> > disinhibition than women.
>
> > "Our study found that obese men have more impulse control than
> > obese women. So, obese men may be protected from more impulsive
> > behavior on the delay-discounting task by having lower
> > disinhibition in general. Obese women may have the double whammy
> > of being female and having higher body mass index," Weller said.
> > T
>
> > he UAB researchers are now conducting delay-discounting studies
> > using functional brain imaging (fMRI). The researchers are using
> > the UAB Civitan International Research Center's 3 Tesla head-
> > only magnet to investigate what happens in the brains of obese
> > individuals who vary in impulsivity as they make decisions.
>
> > UAB researchers James Cox, Ph.D., and Edwin Cook III, Ph.D., and
> > UAB psychology graduate student Kathy Avsar are the co-authors
> > of the study.
>
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> Whatever caused obesity could also have caused the impulsive behavior. I
> put my money on carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are addictive. Eating carbs
> causes us to eat more carbs. Carbohydrates causes us to change our
> behavior i.e. eat more. Whatever argument they're putting up about
> people having a problem with food comes from the food itself, not from
> the person eating it.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

So true. Since I'm low-carb, I don't feel much hungry anymore. The
only time when I'm really hungry, it's when I've not eaten for a
while. I used to be hungry all the time.
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> On Nov 18, 7:59 am, Martin Levac wrote:

>> Whatever caused obesity could also have caused the impulsive behavior. I
>> put my money on carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are addictive. Eating carbs
>> causes us to eat more carbs. Carbohydrates causes us to change our
>> behavior i.e. eat more. Whatever argument they're putting up about
>> people having a problem with food comes from the food itself, not from
>> the person eating it.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> So true. Since I'm low-carb, I don't feel much hungry anymore. The
> only time when I'm really hungry, it's when I've not eaten for a
> while. I used to be hungry all the time.

Same here. When I stay away from carbs, I do not crave them. When I
eat carbs, I am hungry all the time.

Becca
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This is true ...

For evidence just look at the posts in this NG from women who have been
posting here for years. They must be overweight because they have become
fixtures here.

Now, look at the subject matter of their posts. The great majority of these
posts focus on menus and various types of food. These women simply can't
get food out of their minds. They are weak-minded and therefore unable to
control their obsession with food. If they could, they wouldn't need to be
on a diet in the first place.

Every one of them will deny this, or treat this post as a personal attack,
but that doesn't change the facts of what their posts say about them.



"George Orwell" wrote in message

> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081110164040.htm
>
> ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2008) - A new study in the November issue
> of the journal Appetite finds that obese women display
> significantly weaker impulse control than normal-weight women,
> but between obese and normal-weight men, the impulsivity levels
> are nearly the same. The study was conducted by researchers in
> the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of
> Psychology.
>
> UAB researchers conducted the study to see how obese and normal-
> weight men and women differed in their decision-making skills,
> specifically in delay discounting, the measure of how much an
> individual is driven by immediate gratification versus the
> willingness to wait for delayed but greater rewards.
>
> In the study of 95 men and women, UAB researchers gave the
> participants the choice of receiving varying hypothetical
> amounts of money immediately or fixed hypothetical amounts of
> money to be received after delays of two weeks, one month, six
> months or one, three, five or 10 years. The hypothetical rewards
> ranged from $1,000 to $50,000. The researchers found that obese
> women discounted the value of future rewards at a rate three-to-
> four times greater than that of normal-weight women, suggesting
> greater impulsivity.
>
> Obese men, however, and the male and female control subjects all
> showed similar levels of delay discounting. The results were the
> same even when the researchers controlled for differences in IQ
> and income, both of which have been found to be related to
> measures of impulsivity.
>
> One explanation for the differences between men and women may be
> found in a personality trait known as eating-related
> disinhibition, which is the tendency to overeat in response to
> certain situations or cues such as a big display of dessert,
> said UAB researcher Rosalyn Weller, Ph.D., the study's principle
> investigator. Previous studies have shown that those who score
> higher in disinhibition have higher body mass indexes and gain
> weight more easily, she said. However, men score lower in
> disinhibition than women.
>
> "Our study found that obese men have more impulse control than
> obese women. So, obese men may be protected from more impulsive
> behavior on the delay-discounting task by having lower
> disinhibition in general. Obese women may have the double whammy
> of being female and having higher body mass index," Weller said.
> T
>
> he UAB researchers are now conducting delay-discounting studies
> using functional brain imaging (fMRI). The researchers are using
> the UAB Civitan International Research Center's 3 Tesla head-
> only magnet to investigate what happens in the brains of obese
> individuals who vary in impulsivity as they make decisions.
>
> UAB researchers James Cox, Ph.D., and Edwin Cook III, Ph.D., and
> UAB psychology graduate student Kathy Avsar are the co-authors
> of the study.
>
>
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Grant wrote:
| This is true ...
|
| For evidence just look at the posts in this NG from women who have
| been posting here for years. They must be overweight because they
| have become fixtures here.
|
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