Health Psychology Quotes

“Obesity depends on both the number and the size of an individual’s fat cells. Among moderately obese people, fat cells are typically large, but there is not an unusually large number of them. Among the severely obese, there are a large number of fat cells, and the fat cells themselves are exceptionally large (Brownell, 1982). Childhood constitutes a window of vulnerability for obesity because the number of fat cells a person has is typically determined in the first few years of life, by genetic factors and by early eating habits (Wilfley, Hayes, Balantekin, Van Buren, & Epstein, 2018).”
― Shelley E. Taylor, Health Psychology: 2025 Release