Some restrictions on dietary restraint
1990
Westenhoefer, J. | Pudel, V. | Maus, N.
Tuschl (1990) analyses mediating mechanisms between dietary restraint and binge eating. Two simultaneous processes are described: restrained eating enhancing the attractiveness of food, and restrained eating extinguishing the learned components of satiation. There is little doubt as to the involvement of these processes in the development of binge eating. However, the relative contribution of these processes to the development of binge eating still remains unclear. With regard to binge eating, as seen in patients with bulimia nervosa, we raise three points. (1) Is there only a quantitative difference or a qualitative change between casual oversized meals, hyperphagic reactions, e.g. under stress, and clinically relevant eating binges? (2) Why do some restrained eaters develop symptoms of binge eating, whereas some do not, and some even manage to be successful dieters? (3) Is the concept of restrained eating, although it has been useful for more than a decade, too global to explain the different degrees of control and disinhibition of food intake?
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