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- Title
Thinking in Circles About Obesity.
- Authors
HAMID, TAREK K .A.
- Abstract
The strength of the systems approach lies in its capacity to integrate variables that otherwise would be isolated from each other. As shown in this article, in the case of human weight and energy regulation, systems thinking allows us to better understand the feedback interactions between the physiological and the behavioral. Psychologists have found that most people intuitively view causality in linear terms, expecting effect to always be proportional to cause. But the effort needed to accomplish a task often increases exponentially, not linearly, as the difficulty of the task increases. This is one of the perspectives that a systems approach to weight management - and other cognitive and physical tasks - can offer
- Subjects
SYSTEMS theory; PREVENTION of obesity; ENERGY policy; WEIGHT loss; PSYCHOLOGISTS
- Publication
Reflections, 2012, Vol 11, Issue 4, p50
- ISSN
1524-1734
- Publication type
Article