[Behavioral psychology of obesity]

Increase in energy and release of energy are essentially regulated instinctively. The afferences from the exterior and interior milieu, the central impulse zones and the efferences form a system which may be affected by disturbances at different sites. In persons with an obesity of high degree in the majority of cases also other nervous and hormonal disturbances can be proved. The wide-spread obesity as a popular disease is based on unnatural impulses and inhibitions of the regulatory mechanisms. In this milieu the success of the treatment depends on the fact that the patient experiences greater promptings than pleasure in eating and comfort.