Background: The literature available on attitudes toward eating patterns and people choosing various foods suggests the possible importance of “moral” judgments and desirable personality characteristics associated with the described eating patterns. Purpose: This study was designed to replicate and extend a 1993 study of college students’ judgments of others based on described dietary fat patte...

Abstract Background: The prevalence of disordered eating behaviors has been reported to increase in recent decades; therefore, the search for specific psychological variables that may contribute to the etiology of this disorder is of great importance. The current study examined the mediating role of the emotion regulation difficulties on the relationship between body image disturbance and disor...

Backgrounds: The prevalence of disordered eating behaviors has been reported to increase in recent decades; therefore, scientific studies should perform for specifying psychological variables that may contribute to the etiology of this disorder. In this study, we examined the role of body image disturbance and perfectionism variables in predicting disordered eating behaviors among female studen...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate links between obesity, gender and restrained eating in a representative sample of adolescents in Catalonia, Spain. DESIGN Several surveys were conducted in which measurements were taken of a sample of adolescents living in the city of Barcelona. SUBJECTS 610 subjects (57% girls and 43% boys) with ages ranging between 15-17, from 22 schools in Barcelona. MEASUREMENTS ...

Unhealthy eating during adolescence has shown to have multiple negative consequences. The aim of this paper is to acquire knowledge of dietary habits in adolescence and consider how this behaviour varies across different groups of adolescents. Correlations between dietary habits, age and gender have several times been found, in terms of girls eating healthier than boys, and the intake of health...

BACKGROUND Puberty moderates genetic influences on disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, with little genetic influence before puberty but large (50%) genetic effects during and after puberty. To date, however, nothing is known about the mechanisms that underlie these effects. Estradiol is a particularly promising candidate, as estrogens become elevated at puberty and regulate gene transcri...

Characteristics of family mealtimes are associated with disordered eating behaviours. However, little is known about the relationships between characteristics of family mealtimes and disordered eating attitudes, or how symptoms of anxiety or depression may contribute to these relationships. This study therefore aimed to examine differences between adolescent girls and boys in the relationship b...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to develop a healthy eating motivation score and to determine if dietary, lifestyle and activity behaviours vary across levels of motivation to eat a healthy diet with a view to informing health promotion interventions. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of food intake, physical activity, lifestyles and food choice attitudes was conducted in a nationally representati...

introduction there is an agreement that eating disorder is related to psychological characteristics and on the other hand, level of ghrelin hormone, intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (icam-1) and e-selection also change during eating disorders. we aimed to study the relationship between eating disorders and rest levels, icam-1, e-selection, and ghrelin hormone in obese people. materials and met...