Clinical characteristics (DSM-IV-TR) Anxiety: excessive fear and anxious feeling of being fat Weight: it is considered abnormal when it drops below 83% of their normal weight, they may also repeatedly check their weight and obsessively try to control weight by...
Explanations of Attitudes to Food and Eating Behaviour Cultural Influences Ethnicity: Research suggests that body dissatisfaction and related eating disorders are more a characteristic of white women than black or Asian women. (Powell and Khan 1995) Ball and Kenardy...
Restraint Theory Herman and Mack 1975 Research suggests that as many as 89% of the female population in the UK consciously restrain their food intake at some point in their lives (Klesges et al 1987). The Restraint Theory was developed as an attempt to explain both...
There are many complex theories to explain our biological drive to eat and become satiated. There are two neural mechanisms that are part of the dual centre model of feeding regulation. The role of the lateral hypothalamus and neuropeptide Y (NPY) and the role of the...
Evidence strongly suggests that we are born with genetic predispositions to basic tastes which influence our food choices. For example, we prefer sweet foods because of the energy/ glucose, salty foods because of the minerals we need, we have adapted to reject bitter...