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Exploring the Complexities of Body Weight Regulation and Eating Disorders

This article delves into the intricacies of body weight regulation theories, the impact of set points on health, and the effectiveness of caloric restriction. It examines the obesity epidemic, emphasizing evolutionary and cultural factors that drive high-calorie food preferences. The roles of hormones like leptin and insulin in appetite regulation are discussed, along with drastic measures for weight control. The article further highlights eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, exploring their causes, psychological factors, and societal influences.

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Exploring the Complexities of Body Weight Regulation and Eating Disorders

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  1. Problems with Set-Point Theories • Variability of body weight • Set points and health • Free-feeding does not lead to optimum health • Positive effects seen with caloric-restriction

  2. More Problems… • Altering metabolism • Diet-induced thermogenesis – increases in body fat increase body temperature

  3. Why do we care? • Can control our body weight • Then why is there an obesity epidemic?

  4. Why Is There an Epidemic of Obesity? • Evolution favored preferring high calorie food, eating to capacity, storing fat, & using energy efficiently • Cultural practices and beliefs promote consumption

  5. Mutant Obese Mice and Leptin • Mice are 3X normal weight • Lack leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells • Leptin – a negative feedback fat signal

  6. Insulin: Another Negative Feedback Signal • Like leptin, • levels correlated with body fat • receptors found in the brain • reduces eating at levels too low to be aversive or to affect blood glucose • Insulin deficiency leads to hyperphagia, but not obesity – food not converted to fat in the absence of insulin

  7. Drastic Measures • Wiring jaw shut • Stapling stomach • Gastric Bypass Surgery

  8. Anorexia nervosa • A disorder of under consumption of food • Weighs 85% or less • Affects puberty, menstruation, sex drive • Associated with depression, irritability, withdrawal and peculiar behaviors

  9. What causes Anorexia? • No single known cause • Culture • Families • Life changes or stressful events • Personality traits • Biology

  10. More on biology and psychology • Serotonin (high and low) • Autoimmune response to melanocortin peptides • “Perceive” themselves as larger • Lack overconfidence bias • Poor cognitive flexibility, attentional biases

  11. Anorexics are ambivalent about food • Cephalic-phase response • Preoccupied with food • Disgusted by sweet and fatty tastes • Feel ill after a meal

  12. Anorexia and Positive Incentives • Decline in the positive-incentive value of eating food vs. interacting with food • Starvation normally triggers a radical increase in the positive-incentive value of food

  13. Meals • Taste aversions that reduce the motivation to eat

  14. Bulimia Nervosa • A psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by an intentional purging (i.e. vomiting, laxatives, diuretics, excessive exercise, etc.)

  15. Causes and Factors • Lack of control • Caucasian groups • Women: 90% • Activities that emphasize body type • Anxiety and other mood disorders

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