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Though anorexia nervosa (AN) is classified as an eating disorder, a central disturbance seems to be a distorted body size, which does not allow the sufferer to see her emaciated body as it really is. During body processing in healthy women, a fronto-parietal network is activated. In AN similar cortical activation occurs during processing of other women’s bodies suggesting that the functional architecture...
In young children eating behaviors and the developmental sequence of eating skills that culminate in mature swallowing and eating function develop in tandem. Disruption of this developmental process may occur as a component of developmental, relational, neuropsychiatric, psychological, anatomical, neurological, medical, or developmental disorders. The movement sciences provide a theoretical foundation...
Limited success in existing interventions for initiating dietary behavior change among children is forcing a more detailed analysis of how to promote change. The mediating variable model provides a conceptual framework for understanding how behavior change interventions work and integrates more basic behavior with intervention research. The mediating variable model, thereby, provides a scientific...
School-based eating disorder programs have been described and evaluated by controlled studies in several Western countries. The new generation programs, adopting an interactive educational approach and other innovative strategies (e.g., dissonance-based approach, healthy weight-control behaviors, cognitive restructuring techniques, strategies to improve body image by building general self-esteem,...
There is strong evidence that the inclusion of behavioral interventions in childhood obesity treatment results in better outcomes than usual care, and should be a key component in treatment programs. The core behavioral interventions which have been used in treatment of childhood obesity include self-monitoring, stimulus control, reinforcement, goal setting, behavioral contracting, and preplanning...
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