Study aim and hypotheses
weight reduction
DISEASES
We examined the effects of the holistic Healthy Lifestyle Community Programme (HLCP, cohort 1) on changes in stress-related eating behaviour, represented by emotional, external and restrained eatingWe hypothesized that weight change in participants with a low level of perceived stress would be more pronounced than in those with a high level of perceived stress.We further hypothesized, that levels of emotional and external eating behaviour would be reduced and levels of restrained eating behaviour would be increased in participants of the intervention group (IG) after 8 weeks compared to baseline and compared to participants of the control group (CG).Moreover, we hypothesized that changes in stress-eating would be positively correlated with weight change. A primary report on the effect of the HLCP regarding weight reduction and the metabolic risk profile of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the long-term is reported elsewhere