Applying a common-sense approach to fighting obesity

The obesity epidemic is a threat to the health of millions and to the economic viability of healthcare systems,governments,businesses,and nations. a range of answers come to mind if and when we ask,what can we,health professionals (physicians,nurses,nutritionists,behavioral psychologists),do about this epidemic? in this paper,we describe the common-sense model of self-regulation as a framework for organizing existent tools and creating new tools to improve control of the obesity epidemic. further,we explain how the common-sense model can augment existing behavior-change models,with particular attention to the strength of the common-sense model in addressing assessment and weight maintenance beyond initial weight loss. © 2012 jessica y. breland et al.