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“This study suggests that parents continue to play an important role in their child’s eating behavior into their teen years,” said Klosowska. “Additional research is needed to understand the impact restrained eating demonstrated by a parent impacts the emotional eating of a child.”—Notes for editorsThe article is “Emotion Regulation Moderates the Associations of Food Parenting and Adolescent Emotional Eating,” by Joanna Klosowska, MSc; Sandra Verbeken, PhD; Caroline Braet, PhD; Stefaan De Henauw, PhD, MD; and Nathalie Michels, PhD (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2022.05.002opens in new tab/window). It appears in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, volume 54, issue 9 (September 2022), published by Elsevier.The article…

Emotional eating, or eating as a coping mechanism for negative, positive, or stress-driven emotions, is associated with unhealthy dietary patterns and weight gain. A research article featured in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior discusses adolescent vulnerability to emotional eating and how various feeding practices used by parents, such as restriction, food as reward, and child involvement, influence eating behavior. “Emotional eating was previously found to be more learned than inherited. This study examined not only the interaction between parents when feeding their children, but also what children learned from watching their parents eat,” said lead author Joanna Klosowska,…

Changes are coming to the eating disorder program at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.The university says that the Eating Disorders Program will continue to provide services, including an intensive, partial hospitalization program and outpatient care. However, they will no longer be admitting new patients to the inpatient residential care part of the program.A petition has been started on Change.org, entitled “Save the Eating Disorder Program and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.”Lexie Olgren, a woman who used the program, is concerned because the University of Iowa program is the only inpatient treatment eating disorder facility in Iowa. She…

As part of our coverage of the 79th Venice International Film Festival, Lex Briscuso reviews Darren Aronofsky’s latest, The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser. Follow along with more coverage in our Venice Film Festival archives. It has been over four years since Darren Aronofsky released his divisive last feature, mother!, a movie filled with sharp edges and bold paranoia. It was a mammoth of a movie, so huge in scope and concept that it confounded some audience members and delighted others. His next feature is somewhat softer in its approach to questioning human impulses surrounding grief and morality. The Whale is, despite…

Anxiety, autism, schizophrenia and Tourette syndrome each have their own distinguishing characteristics, but one factor bridging these and most other mental disorders is circadian rhythm disruption, according to a team of neuroscience, pharmaceutical sciences and computer science researchers at the University of California, Irvine. In an article published recently in the Nature journal Translational Psychiatry, the scientists hypothesize that CRD is a psychopathology factor shared by a broad range of mental illnesses and that research into its molecular foundation could be key to unlocking better therapies and treatments. “Circadian rhythms play a fundamental role in all biological systems at all…

A small device that detects food craving-related brain activity in a key brain region, and responds by electrically stimulating that region, has shown promise in a pilot clinical trial in two patients with loss-of-control binge eating disorder (BED), according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine. The trial, described in a paper in Nature Medicine, followed the two patients for six months, during which the implanted device—of a type normally used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy—monitored activity in a brain region called the nucleus accumbens. The nucleus accumbens is involved in processing pleasure and reward, and has been implicated in…

Today we’re going to hear from a dad struggling with arguments, both about eating disorder behaviors and almost everything else. As most of us know, arguments with teenagers are frustrating and often counterproductive. So what to do instead? Let’s dive in.  The letter Dear Ginny,  My teenager has an eating disorder. It’s been a few years of stressful meals and endless arguments. I expected the arguments about body image and eating. I’m surprised but also understand the arguments about whether my teen even has an eating disorder. I believe they do, and their treatment providers agree, but my teen says…

It’s safe to say that most of us know what it feels like to finish a whole carton of ice cream when we are sad, or to munch on an entire bag of chips when we are feeling bored and restless. While there is no shame in moments like this because it’s extremely common, emotional eating on a regular basis may not be the best for our health. Cleveland Clinic defines emotional eating as using food to escape or numb our feelings during times of discomfort. For those who feel they turn to food every time they feel an uncomfortable…

A well-timed jolt of high-frequency electricity to a region of the brain implicated in food cravings appears to tamp down the impulses at the heart of binge eating disorder, researchers report.Out-of-control eating that causes shame, regret or health problems is psychiatry’s most recently recognized eating disorder. It’s thought to affect as many as 5% of American adults, most — but not all — of whom are obese. While talk therapy and the ADHD medication Vyvanse are offered as treatments, the condition doesn’t always yield readily to either.In a feasibility study that involved just two patients, researchers at Stanford and University…

The first two patients to undergo an experimental brain surgery for binge eating disorder say that one year later, they feel more in control of what they eat and have fewer cravings.”I am fully aware of my cravings,” Robyn Baldwin, 58, of Citrus Heights, California, told NBC News. “Sometimes, I can just stop, take a breath, and say, ‘Nope.'”Baldwin, along with Lena Tolly, 48, of Elk Grove, California, underwent the surgery after failing to respond to other treatments for binge eating disorder.Preliminary findings on the effects of the surgery — part of a pilot study that will include a total…