While many sensors can monitor physical activity, there is no device that can unobtrusively measure eating at the same level of detail. Yet, tracking and reacting to food consumption is key to managing many chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Eating recognition has primarily used a single sensor at a time in a constrained environment but sensors may fail and each may pick up differen...

OBJECTIVE To examine prospectively the natural course of bulimia nervosa and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) and to test for the effects of personality disorder psychopathology on remission and relapse. METHOD Subjects were 92 female patients with current bulimia nervosa (N = 23) or EDNOS (N = 69) at baseline enrollment in the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders S...

INTRODUCTION Little is known about medication use among women with eating disorders in relation to pregnancy. AIMS To explore patterns of and associations between use of psychotropic, gastrointestinal and analgesic medications and eating disorders in the period before, during and after pregnancy. METHOD This study is based on the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). A total of 62...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Childhood obesity is a serious public health issue globally and poor eating habits are an important contributing factor. This study aimed to explore the perceptions, practices and attitudes towards healthy eating in Bruneian primary school children. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN A qualitative study was conducted among 40 subjects involving 18 children (aged 9-10 years old...

Numerous studies have shown that people adjust their intake directly to that of their eating companions; they eat more when others eat more, and less when others inhibit intake. A potential explanation for this modeling effect is that both eating companions' food intake becomes synchronized through processes of behavioral mimicry. No study, however, has tested whether behavioral mimicry can par...

conclusions the obtained prevalence of ed in our study was higher than previous studies in iran. we found high numbers of boys with ed. overweight adolescents were shown to be more susceptible to strict dieting than normal-weight adolescents. these results suggest that it is necessary to provide screening and treatment services for iranian adolescents. further research is needed to develop inte...