TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 October 1993 Volume 119 Issue 7 Part 2 ( )	Previous Issue  |  Next Issue

Foreword

Bernadine Healy

Introduction

Darla Danford and Suzanne W. Fletcher

Cultural and Psychosocial Determinants of Weight Concerns

Judith Rodin

Descriptive Epidemiology of Body Weight and Weight Change in U.S. Adults

David F. Williamson

Special Issues Regarding Obesity in Minority Populations

Shiriki K. Kumanyika

Medical Hazards of Obesity

F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer

Weight Control Practices of U.S. Adults Trying to Lose Weight

Alan S. Levy and Alan W. Heaton

Weight Control Practices of U.S. Adolescents and Adults

Mary K. Serdula, M. Elizabeth Collins, David F. Williamson, Robert F. Anda, Elsie Pamuk, and Tim E. Byers

Who in America Is Trying To Lose Weight?

John Horm and Kay Anderson

Proposed Standards for Judging the Success of the Treatment of Obesity

Richard L. Atkinson

Evidence for Success of Caloric Restriction in Weight Loss and Control: Summary of Data from Industry

Frederick N. Hyman, Elena Sempos, Joyce Saltsman, and Walter H. Glinsmann

Treatment of Obesity by Moderate and Severe Caloric Restriction: Results of Clinical Research Trials

Thomas A. Wadden

Obesity Treatment: Can Diet Composition Play a Role?

James O. Hill, Holly Drougas, and John C. Peters

Evidence for Success of Behavior Modification in Weight Loss and Control

John P. Foreyt and G. Ken Goodrick

Evidence for Success of Exercise in Weight Loss and Control

Steven N. Blair

Use and Abuse of Appetite-suppressant Drugs in the Treatment of Obesity

George A. Bray

Comparison of Medically Supervised and Unsupervised Approaches to Weight Loss and Control

George L. Blackburn

Minnesota Studies on Community-based Approaches to Weight Loss and Control

Robert W. Jeffery

Short-Term Medical Benefits and Adverse Effects of Weight Loss

F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer

Relation of Dieting and Voluntary Weight Loss to Psychological Functioning and Binge Eating

G. Terence Wilson

The Association between Weight Loss and Increased Longevity: A Review of the Evidence

David F. Williamson and Elsie R. Pamuk

Long-Term Effects of Change in Body Weight on All-Cause Mortality: A Review

Reubin Andres, Denis C. Muller, and John D. Sorkin

Weight Loss and Subsequent Death in a Cohort of U.S. Adults

Elsie R. Pamuk, David F. Williamson, Mary K. Serdula, Jennifer Madans, and Tim E. Byers

Body Weight Change, All-Cause Mortality, and Cause-specific Mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

Steven N. Blair, Jessica Shaten, Kelly Brownell, Gary Collins, and Lauren Lissner

Benefits and Adverse Effects of Weight Loss: Observations from the Framingham Study

Millicent Higgins, Ralph D'Agostino, William Kannel, and Janet Cobb

Methods for Voluntary Weight Loss and Control

NIH Technology Assessment Conference Panel