Talk:Weight management

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 November 2018 and 14 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Atrmd1. Peer reviewers: Sciande.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:50, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Work Plan - Weight Management
As part of an elective offered by my medical school, I will be editing this article with evidence based medicine and well documented concepts from the medical community. I am drawn to this article because of how important diet and exercise are to not only weight management but to health overall. Initial review of this article reveals sections that primarily focus on methods and strategies for weight management. I intend to expand upon this subject by discussing the following topics (each with their own heading):

1.) the effects of calories and macronutrients on weight

2.) tracking caloric/macronutrient/micronutrient intake

3.) body composition - body fat, lean muscle mass, water weight, etc.

4.) different types of physical activity, aerobic vs. anaerobic, and how they can effect weight management

5.) The difference of weight management in children vs. adults.

I also intend to expand upon the descriptions of some of the diets in the 'Popular Diets' section. Specifically, I plan on adding information regarding risks and benefits of certain diets as they relate to certain medical conditions people might have or acquire. My primary resources will be textbooks that can be accessed through ClinicalKey and AccessMedicine. I will start my search by focusing on the fundamentals of weight management as it relates to the basics of calorie intake and physical exertion. It is crucial for the reader to understand budgeting calories in order to grasp the basics of weight management. My goal will be to focus on 1-2 of the subjects listed above each week and build comprehensive description of each of those ideas.

Given the fact that this topic is intimately interconnected with other topics like nutrition, dieting, etc., there will be ample opportunity to provide links to other articles with pertinent information in regards to weight management. With that in mind, I do not plan on including a detailed discussion of each type of macro and micro nutrient. My goal will be to expand upon this article so that it provides the tools for the reader to be able to evaluate different diets and exercise strategies and understand why certain weight management strategies affect weight loss and weight gain.

Focusing on the basic physiology of weight management is my overall objective. This may be somewhat of a difficult topic to discuss without using technical terminology but I intend on using many pictures and diagrams to illustrate the concepts. I will certainly have my peers review the article to ensure that the medical jargon is eliminated or very limited. Atrmd1 (talk) 20:52, 19 November 2018 (UTC)


 * You're doing great work so far! Thanks for the effort. As you are making substantial edits, I wanted to recommend that you keep in mind that this is an article on weight management and not solely on weight loss. For example, "popular diets" may include things like the GOMAD diet and other diets aimed at weight gain (or for weight maintenance, though I'm not sure if there are any notable diets aimed at maintenance). ParticipantObserver (talk) 15:56, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Resources
ClinicalKey (advice and education)

1.) Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (Competent, Proficient, and Expert) in Adult Weight Management - Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2015-04-01, Volume 115, Issue 4, Pages 609-618.e40, Copyright © 2015 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - Section: Evidence based weight management practices

2.) Healthy Weight and Obesity Prevention - JACC (Journal of the American College of Cardiology), 2018-09-25, Volume 72, Issue 13, Pages 1506-1531, Copyright © 2018 American College of Cardiology Foundation - Includes pathophysiology

3.) Childhood and adolescent obesity definitions as related to BMI, evaluation and management options - Best Practice & Research: Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2018-04-01, Volume 48, Pages 158-164, Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd

4.) Guideline - Preventing excess weight gain (NG7) - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

5.) Overweight, obesity, fitness - https://www.aafp.org/patient-care/public-health/fitness-obesity.html

Atrmd1 (talk) 22:47, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

New sections added to article
I added sections titled 'Key components of weight management' and 'Body Mass Index (BMI)'. Both sections were meant to give readers a better understanding of what causes weight gain and weight loss. Atrmd1 (talk) 20:37, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Intro changes
The original intro reads:

"Weight management techniques encompass long-term lifestyle strategies that promote healthy eating and daily physical activity.[1] Effective weight management strategies consider not only weight loss toward but also the maintenance of a healthy body weight over time. Moreover, weight management involves an understanding of meaningful ways to track weight over time and set ideal body weights for different individuals.[2]

Weight management does not include fad diets that promote quick, temporary weight loss. It focuses on the long-term results that are achieved through slow weight loss, followed by retention of an ideal body weight for age, sex and height.

Rising obesity rates are a major concern in North America. About 60% of Canadians are overweight or obese.[3] Obesity is a risk factor for many chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.[4] Managing one’s weight is one factor in preventing such chronic diseases."

I will be making several changes to make the intro more cohesive and to reflect the additional content that I added to the article with the sections titled 'key components of weight management' and 'body mass index (BMI)'.

Atrmd1 (talk) 21:02, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Changes to the section titled 'strategies for maintaining a healthy weight'
I was not the original author of this section. I made many minor grammatical changes. I also removed a subsection titled 'Eat more dairy' because most of the information was based off of individual trials. Though low fat dairy has been shown to be beneficial in weight management, I did not think the information was presented in a way that meets the wiki standards. The original text reads as follows:

"Eating more dairy Studies have shown that a diet high in dairy decreases total body fat. This occurs because a high amount of dietary calcium increases the amount of energy and fat excreted from the body. Studies have shown that saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats all have a higher excretion rate with a high calcium intake. In these studies, a high calcium intake is considered 2300 mg and a low calcium intake is considered 700 mg. A possible explanation to this phenomenon is that high intakes of calcium cause calcium soap formation and/ or binding of bile acids in the intestine. Other studies specifically show that dairy sources of calcium demonstrate greater weight loss than supplemental calcium intake. This may be due to the other bioactive components present in milk, which may aid in metabolic efficiency and fat loss. The accuracy of this statement remains controversial. Since most natural dairy products contain fat content, there is a common understanding that this may cause weight gain. In addition, dairy contains some key ingredients such as whey protein and combinations protein/calcium that have a positive effect on satiety, increases energy loss, and finally assists weight loss."

Atrmd1 (talk) 21:48, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review- Great Job!
Hey there! I am so glad to be peer reviewing your article because it is a really interesting topic, and I have learned a lot. I have listed some suggestions below. Overall, such a wonderful job!

1)I think the layout of your article is appropriate. I think there are some terms that may be a bit tough for the general public to understand. For example, I saw where words like satiety, thermogenic, gastric emptying, etc are all located in the article. I would either hyperlink these words, or provide a sentence explaining their meaning. That would make the article a lot more readable for the general public.

2)I also think you could hyperlink some words like carbohydrates, fat, protein, macronutrient, bile acids, etc. I don’t think you have to explain them in your article, but having a hyperlink would be a way to allow readers to learn more about these terms.

3)Overall, great job with making this article unbiased. I think that diet and exercise suggestions can be opinionated, so you did such a nice job making this article scientific. The only suggestion I have is adding more information about exercise and activity modifications. The article talks heavily about diet, but there is only a small section on exercise. I think readers would benefit for a section that talks details about daily activity contributing to weight management.

4)You did an excellent job with using relevant and current resources for the article.

5)I really enjoyed the section on the different diets. What do you think about adding information about some of the new fad diets that are probably not helpful for weight management in the long run. Im thinking like Whole 30 and keto diets. I don’t know a lot about them, and they are so new Im also not sure if there is any research available. I just imagine these aren’t the best.

6)For the capsaicin section. Maybe say what it is before talking about clinical research. I haven’t ever heard of it, so I imagine many other people are the same.

7)Resistant starch. I feel like the first sentence is confusing for the average public. Maybe putting something before it in simple terms like "Resistant starch is a type of starch that is not easily digested."

8)Again, overall such an awesome page. I really enjoyed it!

sciande Sciande (talk)

Can you please explain why you deleted all of my changes, Plandu?
I made these changes as part of a course that I am enrolled in through my medical school. All of the information is from highly credible sources and referenced appropriately. Can you please explain why you got rid of all of my changes? Thank you.

Atrmd1 (talk) 22:17, 9 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Sorry. Meant to only revert the unexplained deletion, not your additions. Plandu (talk) 22:40, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: UCSF SOM Inquiry In Action-- Wikipedia Editing 2022
— Assignment last updated by Pixie9881 (talk) 17:24, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review
Hello! I think you did a great job at creating a very comprehensive assessment on ways to manage weight. The strength of this article lies in its accessibility to the general public in terms of language and science content. I think the page could be improved in the way it is structured, as there are a large number of small sub-sections that could be collapsed for ease of reading. Allisondemoya (talk) 04:31, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * If the sections are too choppy, related sections could potentially be merged into a broader header. For example, if there are three very short headers like "1970s", "1980s", and "1990s", they could be combined into a single section titled  "1970s–1990s". NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:04, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

UCF CoM WikiProject Medicine Winter 2023 Course
Hi all! I will be editing this article as part of my WikiProject course in medical school. I plan to evaluate the article for areas of improvement and create a workplan before making any edits. Please refer to the workplan below and keep in mind that this is a work in progress that welcomes your feedback:

General: -Try to avoid medical jargon and add hyperlinks to terms/Wikipedia pages if possible. -This article is extensive and filled with many subsections. Edit subsections to consolidate where possible and maintain organization and easy readability of the article. -Look for sentences that are without sources/appear paraphrased and if a source is not listed, try to find source or remove sentence if it is not relevant to the article. -Try to incorporate more information from secondary sources. -Article as is has referenced primary sources, which is discouraged. Click on citations to see if links work, lead to primary sources, and sources are open access. Assess sources/references for open access and if secondary/guideline-related. -There could be many opportunities to include images in this article! Add where possible/necessary. -Plan to use PubMed for open-access sources with the addition of textbooks for information that may be relevant to weight management, but not necessarily open-access.

Article By Section:

Lead Section: -Cross-check sources for relevance and to assess if up-to-date.

Energy Balance: -Check for any possible edits for conciseness. Otherwise, sources have been cross-checked (textbook or NIH).

Diet: -Cross-check references.

Physical Activity: -Update definitions of physical activity without including recommendations.

Basal Metabolic Rate: -Cross check references for open access/primary source. -Will not be prioritizing this section, but will still check for copyediting edits.

Complicating factors: -Add hyperlinks where feasible. -Cross check references. -Citation needed in “Diseases” subsection.

Strategies: -Try to update references to be more current (2013-2023), unless references are or appear as sentinel. -Assess if information is relevant and widely studied.

Popular Diets: -Update DASH diet where necessary and cross-check references. -Try to expand section with review of diets best medically proven to lead to long term weight loss (e.g. Mediterranean, Keto, Whole30, plant-based since a Wikipedia page exists for this already). A98h76h54 (talk) 17:24, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Adding to Work Plan:
 * Go over PCOS/T2DM Section and check sources- citations are needed/may rely too heavily on primary sources in this area.
 * Continue to add medically proven diets to last section.
 * Continue to add images where appropriate (especially between large chunks of information).
 * Add to Physical Activity/Diet sections from Guidelines/Sources compiled.
 * Continue copyediting because many sentences are redundant and very long.

A98h76h54 (talk) 23:21, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Please see Medical disclaimer. I have removed some of the most blatant violations of that, but there is still a lot of content that reads like medical advice. The article is also very imbalanced – in the past few decades, "weight management" is perhaps more commonly connected to keeping one's weight down, but Wikipedia is not (or should not be) focused on such a narrow and recent view. What sources are available about the views on "weight management" historically, and in different cultures?  --bonadea contributions talk 23:34, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, from my understanding, it is best practice to still include the citation after each sentence?
 * Thank you for pointing out some of the edits that read like medical advice. I wanted to add on to the information present with secondary sourced information and did not realize it would come across as giving advice but that is certainly important. I do agree that the article appears imbalanced based on weight loss (which may have to do with the rising/current prevalence of obesity), but I am sure secondary information exists on weight gain to a healthy point for maintenance and historic/cultural views on weight management. I have tried to find secondary sources on these topics, but not many exist. For the remaining time I have left to edit this article, I will focus on readability, ensuring sources are secondary-based, and updating older information under strategies and diets. A98h76h54 (talk) 00:15, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Also, can you please explain why the Physical Activity section information from the textbook that has been cited various times throughout the article was deleted? I understand the guideline information should not be included, but the textbook contained scientific information on physical activity as a contributing factor to weight management. Thank you. A98h76h54 (talk) 00:28, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

A98h76h54 (talk) 15:23, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: WikiProject Medicine Winter 2023 UCF COM
— Assignment last updated by DLEMERGEBM (talk) 00:27, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

UCF CoM Peer Review
 General Info 

- I am reviewing A98h76h54 article on weight management

 Lead 

Guiding questions:


 * Has the Lead been updated to reflect the new content added by your peer? Yes, great overview on the article!
 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? Yes, it's a broad topic and the author did a great job of summarizing it succinctly in the lead section.
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? Not that I am aware of.
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? It is concise with pertinent information.

 Content 

Guiding questions:


 * Is the content added relevant to the topic? Yes, enjoyed reading the "physical activity" section as well as about the different diets (i.e. Meditteranean, Ketogenic, Plant-based, intermittent fasting, etc.)
 * Is the content added up-to-date? Yes, information seems to be from the most up to date sources.
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? I feel in terms of "weight management", the article covers about everything that I would expect to be discussed as a reader.

 Tone and Balance 

Guiding questions:


 * Is the content added neutral? Yes, tone is fair and does not seem to favor any method (i.e. diet or exercise) over another.
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? Not that I noticed.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? No, very well-balanced article with multiple viewpoints.
 * Does the content added attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? No, it gives a variety of perspectives on the different topics of weight management.

 Sources and References 

Guiding questions:


 * Is all new content backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? Yes, all sentences have a citation.
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? Yes, all references appear authentic and in congruence with the point being made.
 * Are the sources current? Yes, most references seem to be as up to date as possible.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? Yes, they work!

 Images and Media 

Guiding questions:


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? Yes, images are great and very colorful!
 * Are images well-captioned? Yes. For example, the Mediterranean diet one.
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? Yes!
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? Yes!

 Overall Impressions 

Guiding questions:


 * Has the content added improved the overall quality of the article - i.e. Is the article more complete? Yes, the content is wonderful and very information!
 * What are the strengths of the content added? The strengths of the article include the wide range of topics that are covered in a clear and succinct manner. The article is well-organized and does a great job not focusing too much on one topic. Images are very well-placed and appropriate to the article.
 * How can the content added be improved? I don't feel like really any areas really need much improvement! It is a great article. If anything, I would suggest adding another reference to the "physical activity" section in addition to reference "5". Physical activity is a broad topic so think getting an additional reference / viewpoint in that section could be beneficial.

Overall Evaluation

Extremely well-written article! Any person interested in learning about "weight management" would benefit greatly from reading this Wikipedia page. Great Job! Tch5167 (talk) 02:43, 31 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for this great feedback! I appreciate your comments on how clear the information is to the average reader. To improve the physical activity section, I added a couple more sources that focus on physical inactivity globally and effects of that inactivity. Please feel free to look over this section! A98h76h54 (talk) 12:04, 1 February 2023 (UTC)