Eating habits and nutrient intakes of college women over a thirty-year period

Jakobovits, C; Halstead, Paul; Kelley, Lucille T.; Da, Roe; Cm, Young

doi:10.1016/s0002-8223(21)40944-2

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“…Hawkins, Turell, and Jackson (1983) found that 80% of girls (but only 10% of boys) reported having been on a diet before age 13. Jakobovits, Halstead, Kelley, Roe, and Young (1977) found that up to 77% of college women described themselves as dieters. Thus, dieting behaviors are widespread among females and begin at very early ages.…”

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Binge eating as escape from self-awareness.

Heatherton

Baumeister²

1991

Psychological Bulletin

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126

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This article proposes that binge eating is motivated by a desire to escape from self-awareness. Binge eaters suffer from high standards and expectations, especially an acute sensitivity to the difficult (perceived) demands of others. When they fall short of these standards, they develop an aversive pattern of high self-awareness, characterized by unflattering views of self and concern over how they are perceived by others. These aversive self-perceptions are accompanied by emotional distress, which often includes anxiety and depression. To escape from this unpleasant state, binge eaters attempt the cognitive response of narrowing attention to the immediate stimulus environment and avoiding broadly meaningful thought. This narrowing of attention disengages normal inhibitions against eating and fosters an uncritical acceptance of irrational beliefs and thoughts. The escape model is capable of integrating much of the available evidence about binge eating.

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Section: Definitions and Scope Of Coveragementioning

confidence: 99%

Binge eating as escape from self-awareness.

Heatherton

Baumeister²

1991

Psychological Bulletin

1,953

126

1,311

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“…Self-reports of binge eating in college women range from 13% to 67% (Halmi et al, 1981;Hawkins & Clement, 1980;Olmsted & Garner, 1982). The figure of 67% approaches the highest recorded estimate of college women dieters--77% (Jakobovits, Halstead, Kelley, Roe, & Young, 1977). A British researcher received hundreds of replies to his recent advertisement asking for bulimics to contact him (Fairburn & Cooper, 1982), and a Chicago clinician who was mentioned in a newspaper report as an expert on binge eating received over 1,500 letters from bulimics requesting his help (Johnson et al, 1983).…”

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Dieting and binging: A causal analysis.

Polivy¹,

Herman²

1985

American Psychologist

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792

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We first establish the association between binge eating and dieting and present sequence data indicating that dieting usually precedes binging, chronologically. We propose that dieting causes binging by promoting the adoption of a cognitively regulated eating style, which is necessary if the physiological defense of body weight is to be overcome. The defense of body weight entails various metabolic adjustments that assist energy conservation, but the behavioral reaction of binge eating is best understood in cognitive, not physiological, terms. By supplanting physiological regulatory controls with cognitive controis, dieting makes the dieter vulnerable to disinhibition and consequent overeating. Implications for therapy are discussed, as are the societal consequences of regarding dieting as a "solution" to the problem of binging.

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“…And consistent with our review thus far, these girls listed weight as their leading concern about their appearance. In a survey of 195 female high school juniors and seniors, 125 girls reported that they made conscious efforts to restrict their food intake in order to maintain or lose weight (Jakobovits, Halstead, Kelley, Roe, & Young, 1977).…”

Section: Adolescencementioning

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Toward an understanding of risk factors for bulimia.

Striegel‐Moore¹,

Silberstein²,

Rodin³

1986

American Psychologist

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587

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The purpose of this article is to integrate diverse research efforts in an attempt to move toward an understanding of risk factors for bulimia. For this task, three questions in particular require attention. Because 90% of bulimics are women, a first question to address is, Why women? Second, despite the high prevalence of dieting and weight concerns among women in general, it is still a minority who evidence the clinical syndrome of bulimia, leading to the question, Which women in particular? These questions are considered from a range of perspectivesusociocultural, developmental, psychological, and biological Third, the rapidly increasing prevalence of bulimia in recent years raises yet another question, Why now? Our analysis points to research questions that must be examined before we can expand our understanding of the etiology of bulimia.

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Eating habits and nutrient intakes of college women over a thirty-year period

Cited by 53 publications

References 14 publications

Binge eating as escape from self-awareness.

Binge eating as escape from self-awareness.

Dieting and binging: A causal analysis.

Toward an understanding of risk factors for bulimia.

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