eating disorders

AI-generated dietary advice risks teens’ nutrient intake and may trigger eating disorders

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A study has found that teens using AI models for meal plans and dietary advice may be eating too few calories compared to those following plans created by dieticians. While undercalculating macronutrients such as carbs, the tools overcalculated proteins and lipids.  This poses potential health hazards for adolescents at a crucial stage of growth and … Read more

Eating Disorders & Pregnancy: Risks, Science & Support 🤰

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Archyde The Silent Struggle: How Past Eating Disorders Shape Maternal Mental Health – and What’s Next Nearly 30% of women experience some form of mental health challenge during pregnancy and postpartum.… You can read the full story here: Eating Disorders & Pregnancy: Risks, Science & Support 🤰. Source link

How social media can ‘trigger’ eating disorders in young people

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Social media can push vulnerable young people towards developing eating disorders by glorifying thinness and promoting fake, dangerous advice about diet and nutrition, experts warn. Young women and girls are much more likely to suffer from illnesses such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder, though rates among men have been increasing. Research has shown … Read more

How social media can ‘trigger’ eating disorders in young people

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Social media can push vulnerable young people towards developing eating disorders by glorifying thinness and promoting fake, dangerous advice about diet and nutrition, experts warn. Young women and girls are much more likely to suffer from illnesses such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder, though rates among men have been increasing. Research has shown … Read more

Predictors of orthorexia nervosa in women: eating attitudes, emotional regulation difficulties, anxiety, depression and self-esteem | BMC Psychology

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Research model The study used the relational screening model. The relational survey model is a survey approach that aims to determine the existence of covariance between two or more variables. The relational survey model attempts to determine whether or not the variables change together, and if there is a change, how it happens [26]. Research … Read more

Adaptations of an online cognitive-behavioral therapy intervention for binge type eating disorders in publicly-insured and uninsured adults: a pilot study | BMC Public Health

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Participants We expected that the 11 participants enrolled sufficed for the purposes of qualitative analyses since sample sizes above nine often achieve coding saturation [29, 30]. Indeed, coding saturation was achieved in the present study. Adult participants were primarily cisgender females (n = 8, 72%) who identified as White and non-Latinx (n = 8, 72%) with a household income … Read more

I’ve entered the world of weight-loss clips on Tiktok. It’s like heroin chic all over again – The Irish Times

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My TikTok feed was meant to be a safe space, a curated digital charcuterie board of niche content that feeds my soul. We’ve got interspecies animal friendships, northern English hairdressers doing proper bouncy blow-drys and Gen Z historians playing Snog, Marry, Avoid with 1916 Proclamation signatories. If I indeed have a foreign spy in charge … Read more

Mice Lose Interest in High-Fat Diet Due to Declining Neurotensin

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The pleasure we get from eating junk food—the dopamine rush—is often blamed as the cause of overeating and rising obesity rates in our society. But paradoxically, anecdotal evidence suggests that people with obesity may take less pleasure in eating than do individuals with normal weight. Brain scans of obese individuals show reduced activity in pleasure-related … Read more

‘I wouldn’t speak to my worst enemy the way I talked to myself’ – The Irish Times

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Mirin Pearce, from Cork, had “pretty obvious” signs of bulimia for six or seven years. But she didn’t realise for some time that she needed help. “I was struggling a lot with my mental health at the time, and I guess [bulimia] was a symptom of my other struggles,” says the 33-year-old. “The eating disorder … Read more