INTRODUCTION: This research was performed by the Jennifer C. Collins and Jon E. Bentz who are the Lancaster General Neuropsychology Specialists. This research was conducted to know the “Behavioral and Psychological Factors in Obesity” which was published on 2009 in “The Journal of Lancaster General Hospital”. This research was conducted to identify whether the Psychological and the behavioral factors also leads to the obese condition, which cannot be controlled even after performing regular workouts and exercises.
BODY: The author Jennifer C. Collins have done MA, MS in neuropsychology and the author
Jon E. Bentz got his Ph.D. in Neuropsychology. As this research is based on the psychological and behavioral factors, the authors seems suitable to perform this research. These authors seems to have a good knowledge on psychology which can be identified by the information they have provided and the support they have collected to back up their opinions and also provided the references and citations. The information they have collected from the other sources and articles provides support to their idea. They did not particularly specified about the audience they were focusing on but, by the topic and the information given in the article, this is more likely to be read by medical and health science students and the professors of the health care department, physicians and psychologists. The writing style of the article seems to be academic and there were few spelling mistakes which were negligible. According to the Jennifer C. Collins and the Jon E. Bentz “The psychological and the behavioral issues plays a vital role in the occurrence of the obesity which in turn leads to the serious health issues” (Jennifer C. Collins, 2009). Though the evidences does not exactly answer my question, the evidences gives an idea which can be used as an answer. The evidences supports my question because, the behavioral and the psychological factors such as bad food habits( eating food in the odd times and taking calorie rich food) leads to obesity no matter how hard the person may work out regularly, these behavioral factors makes a person to lose hopes on reducing weight which hurts the individual mentally.
CONCLSION: This article which focuses on the occurrence of obesity provides a two unique cases about how one can also develop obesity. The authors would be successful in convincing the readers because, they have provided the valid information as a support to their idea.