Like traditional media, information on the World Wide Web may encourage both healthy and unhealthy behaviors. This study reports on the content analysis of a particular genre of Web site that promotes unhealthy behaviors: pro-eating disorder Web sites. Framed in message design theory, the results of this study indicate that messages on pro-eating disorder Web sites promote response efficacy in ...

abstract background: an association of eating disorder with diabetes mellitus may lead to a serious lack of metabolic control, higher mortality and morbidity. there is no recent study conducted in the iranian population about eating disorder and its variants. the aim of the present study is investigation of frequency of disturbed eating behaviors in adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes mellitu...

objective: compulsive or binge eating is a kind of disturbed eating behavior, which is mostly observed among dieting women, and is integrated with appetite disorder, and uncontrolled eating of plenty of junk food. the compulsive eating scale (ces) created first by kagan & squires in 1984, is an eight-item self-reporting instrument that is made to measure the severity of binge eating disorder. t...

Appetizing peculiarities are formed from childhood and can vary throughout life. Although they conditioned by genetic factors, over time, the internal regulation of eating behaviors is reduced, being influenced a complex interaction various external factors. According to Behavioral Susceptibility (BST) Theory Obesity, Food Sensitivity in Response Stimuli (such as Sight Smell) Satiety Responsive...

Binge Eating Disorder (BED), a chronic condition characterized by eating disorder psychopathology and physical and social disability, represents a significant public health problem. Guided Self Help (GSH) treatments for BED appear promising and may be more readily disseminable to mental health care providers, accessible to patients, and cost-effective than existing, efficacious BED specialty tr...

In clinical practice, obese patients report stress as a primary trigger for binge eating. However, the biological mechanism underlying this relationship is poorly understood. This paper presents, a theoretical overview of how cortisol secretion, a major component of the stress response, could play a role in binge eating, given that exogenous glucocorticoids can lead to obesity by increasing foo...

INTRODUCTION Response inhibition in eating disorders (ED) has been studied using methods such as Go/No-go tasks and cognitive conflict tasks, but the results have been inconsistent with regard to the presence or absence of impaired response inhibition in ED. This may be due to variation across the studies in the characteristics of the tasks and in the degree of underweight of ED participants. ...

As part of a study of the relationship of binge eating, alcohol use, mood, and stressors, we compared the results of two forms of reporting on binge eating and drinking behavior. Forty-three first-year college women participated in an interactive voice response (IVR) study for 12 weeks. Participants answered computer-administered questions daily via IVR technology on number of eating binges and...

OBJECTIVE Placebo response in studies of binge eating disorder (BED) has raised concern about its diagnostic stability. The aims of this study were (1) to compare placebo responders (PRs) with nonresponders (NRs); (2) to investigate the course of BED following placebo response; and (3) to examine attributions regarding placebo response. METHOD The baseline placebo run-in phase (BL) was part o...

Obesity is a medical and social problem with a dramatically increasing prevalence. It is important to take action since childhood to prevent and treat obesity and metabolic syndrome. Infantile obesity affects all body systems starting in childhood and continuing to adulthood. Understanding the impact of stressors on weight status may be especially important for preventing obesity. The relations...