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FRIDAY, June 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Specific types of gut bacteria appear to be linked to compulsive eating, a new study reports.Researchers found that one type of gut bacteria — the Proteobacteria family — is abundant in people and mice with an addiction to food.Other types of gut bacteria are decreased in food-addicted people and mice, including Blautia bacteria and bacteria belonging to the Actinobacteria family, researchers say.What’s more, food addiction decreased in mice when they were fed prebiotics that caused Blautia levels in the gut to rise, said researcher Elena Martin-Garcia, a professor of medicine and life sciences…
Hi, I’m Scout. I am writing this blog from the perspective of a transgender and intersex person who has experienced many iterations of my identities and relationships with them. My eating disorder has been bound with most, if not all, of my identities and social locations. My StoryIn 2016, during my second inpatient stay for my eating disorder, I had a therapist who was exploring inner child work with me. I found myself becoming very dysregulated when she used the gendered language of “girl” or “woman” to describe me in the past and then-present. During this time, I had a…
Introduction Over the last 40 years there has been a greater than 10-fold increase in the number of school-age children and adolescents with obesity (from 11 million to 124 million; 2016 estimates) (NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), 2017). Childhood obesity is one of the most serious global public health problems worldwide. Compared with children with a healthy weight, overweight or obese children are more likely to experience negative consequences (Lobstein et al., 2004), including poorer health in childhood and adulthood, poor academic performance, and a lower chance of being employed as an adult (OECD., 2019). Therefore, understanding the neural substrates…
Certain gut bacteria may increase the risk that a person will binge eat and become obese, a new study suggests.In a series of experiments, mice and humans with a propensity for binge eating had similar levels of two types of bacteria in their microbiomes — one detrimental and one beneficial — according to the report presented Thursday at a meeting of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and published in the journal Gut.The researchers also found that if they increased the number of a type of beneficial bacteria called Blautia, they could prevent addictive eating behaviors from developing in mice.The…
Certain gut bacteria may increase the risk that a person will binge eat and become obese, a new study suggests.In a series of experiments, mice and humans with a propensity for binge eating had similar levels of two types of bacteria in their microbiomes — one detrimental and one beneficial — according to the report presented Thursday at a meeting of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and published in the journal Gut.The researchers also found that if they increased the number of a type of beneficial bacteria called Blautia, they could prevent addictive eating behaviors from developing in mice.The…
1. Introduction Adolescence is a critical stage in life, when healthy or risk behaviors of adulthood are first established, and social and emotional development affects decision-making and behavior (1, 2). The development of obesity or cardiovascular diseases can be accompanied by the emergence of mental health disorders such as depression, eating disorders, and low self-esteem (3, 4). Furthermore, oxidative stress has been linked with depression (5, 6), whereas a healthy dietary pattern is associated with good mental health (1, 7). Obesity and metabolic syndrome (MS) are multifactorial diseases estimated to affect 5% of the global adolescent population in 2020 (8).…
Introduction Compulsivity is defined as “the performance of repetitive, unwanted and functionally impairing overt or covert behaviors without adaptive function, performed in a habitual or stereotyped fashion, either according to rigid rules or as a means of avoiding perceived negative consequences” (Fineberg et al., 2014, p. 70). Behavioral patterns of compulsive eating, defined as repetitive bouts, without homeostatic function, with adverse consequences, and as ways to relieve stress, are common across several eating-related conditions (Moore et al., 2017). These include: (1) eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED); (2) obesity; and (3) food addiction (FA),…
The average cost of purchasing healthy food daily increased by 32 per cent to N1,041 in May 2024 from N786 in December 2023. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, disclosed this in its latest Cost of a Healthy Diet, CoHD report for May 2024, released on Friday in Abuja. Meanwhile, on a month-on-month basis, the report said that the cost of a healthy diet increased marginally by one per cent in May 2024, compared to the N1,035 recorded in April. “This is a lower bound (or floor) of the cost per adult per day excluding the cost of transportation and…
Few conditions are as wrapped in self-directed shame as eating disorders. As a therapist, I’ve seen a unique flavor of abashment linked to each disorder in each person. As well, most individuals I meet with a diagnosis of ADHD have fought battles with low self-worth. In a culture that values organization and executive functioning, placing individuals with ADHD at risk of judgment and negative evaluation from an early age, it is natural that many struggle to give themselves the full compassion they deserve. Something that often goes unrecognized, however, is the link between eating disorders and ADHD. A study of…
Few conditions are as wrapped in self-directed shame as eating disorders. As a therapist, I’ve seen a unique flavor of abashment linked to each disorder in each person. As well, most individuals I meet with a diagnosis of ADHD have fought battles with low self-worth. In a culture that values organization and executive functioning, placing individuals with ADHD at risk of judgment and negative evaluation from an early age, it is natural that many struggle to give themselves the full compassion they deserve. Something that often goes unrecognized, however, is the link between eating disorders and ADHD. A study of…