The purpose of the article "Dieting and the Development of Eating Disorders in Obese Women: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial" (2004) is to examine the issue of possible correspondence between dieting and binge eating as well as various mood swings in persons who did not have these complications before treatment.
The Relevance of the Article to the Nutrition Field
The article considers one of the most actual issues of the nutrition field, namely the development of eating disorders and mood disturbance in obese women, which were caused by randomized controlled trail. Applied methods are corresponding to the methods, which are relevant to the researches in the nutrition field. The 123 obese women were randomly divided into three groups. The first group was assigned to diet including 4 servings per day with the liquid meal replacement (MR) including 1000 kcal/d. The second group was assigned to a balanced deficit diet (BDD) consisting of 1200-1500 kcal per day. The last group practiced a nondieting (ND) approach without any energy restrictions. During 20 weeks, all groups attended sessions weekly, and from week 20 to week 40 they attended sessions biweekly. The terminological apparatus corresponds to the nutrition field researches. Such terminological units are topical within the given article as binge eating, obesity, eating disorders, dieting, depression, weight loss, etc. (Wadden et al. 560).
This article is relevant to the nutrition field because it also represents scientific novelty. The results of the research reflected in this article summarize the issue of influence and results of dieting and eating disorders treatment in obese women. These results are considered from the point of view of nutrition field. They may serve as a basis for further studies in nutrition fields.
The given article includes the overviews of previous nutrition field researches. The authors of the article refer to the works of such experts in the nutrition field as Wadden, Brownell, Foster, Carrier, Steinhardt, Bowman, Wilson, etc. The scientific articles of mentioned authors were used in order to describe the issue of development of eating disorders, provide the statistical data on obese people, and affects of diets and other ways of obesity treatment.
Conclusions of the Research Performed in the Article
The results concerning the adverse effect of a diet on persons with excess weight or on patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa were in certain cases incorrectly generalized and associated with obesity and overweight of those people who seek to become thin by means of restriction of caloric content of their food. Actual conclusions also represent that good-quality consequences of a diet among obese people should not be misinterpreted as refusal of potential danger of an aggressive effort to lose weight among teenage girls and young women. The results of research specifically concern the excess weight and obesity in adults who seek to become thin following the appropriate program of food consumption, physical activity, and behavioral therapy set in accordance to the recommendations of the experts of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Moreover, the results of the article show that fears concerning possible negative consequences of a diet should not dissuade people with an excess weight from attempts to lose it. The recent results provided by the Diabetes Prevention Program showed that advantages for health which result from the correct loss of weight and increase in physical activity are convincing (Wadden et al. 567).
The Reason Why the Given Article Was Chosen
First of all, the given article was chosen because it is quite relevant for the nutrition field. The presented research introduces a complex approach to the examination of the issue under analysis instead of focusing on a single aspect. It contributes to the paradigm of nutrition, and the results of the research can be practically implemented in the aforesaid sphere. The article is equally appropriate and comprehensible for academic readership and the general audience who wish to obtain more knowledge about the considered topic.
