"This study does not state that these women suffered from depression before the study. It could be that by asking the women to focus on their weight caused them to focus on a perceived weakness rather than being happy with their current condition. This could decrease their happiness," said Hamrick, who was not involved in this study.
"Obesity is indeed a complex issue. Looked at in through the prism of energy medicine, one of the biggest underlying causes of obesity seems to be the 'emotional baggage' that people accumulate during their lives," Bradley Nelson, DC, international lecturer in bio-energetic medicine and energy psychology, told dailyRx News.
"Emotional energies often become lodged in the body during intense emotional events, leading not only to emotional eating and self-sabotage, but to physical pain and disability as well. Energy medicine sees different emotions as different vibrational frequencies. Trapped emotions are discrete areas of energetic disturbance in the body, that seem to facilitate and enhance negative emotional responses to food, relationships, situations and more," said Dr. Nelson.
More research is needed, according to the scientists, to determine relationships between mental health and healthy weight maintenance.
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