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      The weight loss blogosphere: an online survey of weight loss bloggers.

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          Blogging is a form of online journaling that has been increasingly used to document an attempt in weight loss. Despite the prevalence of weight loss bloggers, few studies have examined this population. We examined characteristics of weight loss bloggers and their blogs, including blogging habits, reasons for blogging, like and dislikes of blogging, and associations between blogging activity and weight loss. Participants (N = 194, 92.3 % female, mean age = 35) were recruited from Twitter and Facebook to complete an online survey. Participants reported an average weight loss of 42.3 pounds since starting to blog about their weight loss attempt. Blogging duration significantly predicted greater weight loss during blogging (β = -3.65, t(185) = -2.97, p = .003). Findings suggest that bloggers are generally successful with their weight loss attempt. Future research should explore what determines weight loss success/failure in bloggers and whether individuals desiring to lose weight would benefit from blogging.

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          Written emotional expression: effect sizes, outcome types, and moderating variables.

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          A research synthesis was conducted to examine the relationship between a written emotional expression task and subsequent health. This writing task was found to lead to significantly improved health outcomes in healthy participants. Health was enhanced in 4 outcome types--reported physical health, psychological well-being, physiological functioning, and general functioning--but health behaviors were not influenced. Writing also increased immediate (pre- to postwriting) distress, which was unrelated to health outcomes. The relation between written emotional expression and health was moderated by a number of variables, including the use of college students as participants, gender, duration of the manipulation, publication status of the study, and specific writing content instructions.
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            Forming a story: the health benefits of narrative.

            J Pennebaker, J D Seagal (1999)
            Writing about important personal experiences in an emotional way for as little as 15 minutes over the course of three days brings about improvements in mental and physical health. This finding has been replicated across age, gender, culture, social class, and personality type. Using a text-analysis computer program, it was discovered that those who benefit maximally from writing tend to use a high number of positive-emotion words, a moderate amount of negative-emotion words, and increase their use of cognitive words over the days of writing. These findings suggest that the formation of a narrative is critical and is an indicator of good mental and physical health. Ongoing studies suggest that writing serves the function of organizing complex emotional experiences. Implications for these findings for psychotherapy are briefly discussed.
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              Overweight and Obesity as Determinants of Cardiovascular Risk

              Peter Wilson, Ralph D'Agostino, Lisa Sullivan … (2002)
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                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Transl Behav Med
                Title: Translational behavioral medicine
                Publisher: Springer Nature
                ISSN (Electronic): 1613-9860
                ISSN (Print): 1613-9860
                Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2016
                Volume: 6
                Issue: 3
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. martinus.evans@gmail.com.
                [2 ] Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Ave North, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA. martinus.evans@gmail.com.
                [3 ] Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
                [4 ] Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Ave North, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA.
                [5 ] Department of Psychology, Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL, USA.
                [6 ] Department of Quantitative Health Sciences and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
                [7 ] Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
                [8 ] Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA.
                [9 ] Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and The Miriam Hospital, Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
                [10 ] Center for Public Health and Health Policy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
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                Publisher Item ID: 10.1007/s13142-015-0350-z
                DOI: 10.1007/s13142-015-0350-z
                PMC ID: 4987604
                PubMed ID: 27528529
                SO-VID: 0944e0a2-14d0-4392-b54a-3e66e850d737
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                Keywords: Social media,Weight loss blogs,Bloggers,Blogging,Obesity,Weblog,Weight loss
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                Keywords: Social media, Weight loss blogs, Bloggers, Blogging, Obesity, Weblog, Weight loss

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