Food intake affects state body image: Impact of restrained eating patterns and concerns about eating, weight and shape

Vocks, Silja; Legenbauer, Tanja; Heil, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2007.03.006

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“…Similarly, other studies have found that BN participants estimate their actual body size to be larger after being exposed to high-calorie food, whereas controls do not. 34,35,37,38,95 In view of the evidence of a close relationship between social anxiety and eating disorders, 83,[96][97][98][99][100][101] we expected that the presence or absence of people would also exert a significant effect on body-image disturbances in our ED subjects. Surprisingly, however, neither the people variable nor the interaction between the food and people variables had a significant effect on body-image distortion and body-image dissatisfaction.…”

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“…31,32 Nevertheless, several studies have provided evidence of fluctuations in body-image disturbance. Studies have analyzed the influence that eating low-and high-calorie food, 12,[33][34][35] being exposed to low-and highcalorie food, [36][37][38] and being exposed to photographs of low-and high-calorie food [39][40][41] exerts on body-image disturbances. As Fett et al 42 stress, the literature shows that food intake is an important factor that causes changes in bodyimage dissatisfaction.…”

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Body Image in Eating Disorders: The Influence of Exposure to Virtual-Reality Environments

Gutiérrez-Maldonado

Ferrer-García

Caqueo-Urízar

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Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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The aim of this article was to study the effect of virtual-reality exposure to situations that are emotionally significant for patients with eating disorders (ED) on the stability of body-image distortion and body-image dissatisfaction. A total of 85 ED patients and 108 non-ED students were randomly exposed to four experimental virtual environments: a kitchen with low-calorie food, a kitchen with high-calorie food, a restaurant with lowcalorie food, and a restaurant with high-calorie food. In the interval between the presentation of each situation, body-image distortion and body-image dissatisfaction were assessed. Several 2Â2Â2 repeated measures analyses of variance (high-calorie vs. low-calorie foodÂpresence vs. absence of peopleÂED group vs. control group) showed that ED participants had significantly higher levels of body-image distortion and body dissatisfaction after eating high-calorie food than after eating low-calorie food, while control participants reported a similar body image in all situations. The results suggest that body-image distortion and body-image dissatisfaction show both trait and state features. On the one hand, ED patients show a general predisposition to overestimate their body size and to feel more dissatisfied with their body image than controls. On the other hand, these body-image disturbances fluctuate when participants are exposed to virtual situations that are emotionally relevant for them.

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Body Image in Eating Disorders: The Influence of Exposure to Virtual-Reality Environments

Gutiérrez-Maldonado

Ferrer-García

Caqueo-Urízar

et al. 2010

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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“…We cannot exclude the possibility that these state-like variables might have influenced the results because previous research demonstrated that mood 58 and recent food consumption 59 influence state body image. Future research should include these variables to test their impact on the neurobiologic underpinnings of body-image processing in eating disorders.…”

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Neural correlates of viewing photographs of one’s own body and another woman’s body in anorexia and bulimia nervosa: an fMRI study

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Grönemeyer³

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Background:In spite of many similarities in the psychopathology of anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN), the 2 groups seem to differ in terms of body image disturbances. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to compare neuronal correlates of viewing photographs of one's own body and another woman's body in patients with these forms of eating disorders as well as controls. Methods: We performed functional magnetic resonance imaging while women with AN (n = 13), BN (n = 15) and healthy controls (n = 27) viewed 16 standardized pictures of their own body and another woman's body, taken while the participants were wearing a bikini. Results: When viewing their own body, participants with AN and BN showed reduced activity in the inferior parietal lobule compared with healthy women. In response to looking at another woman's body, participants with AN had higher amygdala activity than did those in the BN and control groups. Limitations: The generalizability of the results is limited by the small sample size. Conclusion: Our data suggest decreased attentional processes in AN and BN toward one's own body, possibly reflecting body-related avoidance behaviour. Enhanced limbic activity elicited by looking at another woman's body in participants with AN might be a neural correlate of stronger emotional activation and enhanced vigilance, possibly resulting from social comparison processes. Our study reveals hints about body image-associated alterations in brain activity, which seem to be more pronounced among women with AN than among those with BN.

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“…Women have been found to be more dissatisfied with their own body in social and body focused situations (Haimovitz, Lansky, & O'Reilly, 1993;Tiggemann, 2001) and when they are exposed to thin-idealized bodies (Waller & Barnes, 2002). The influence of eating and hunger has been the subject of a few studies in which the results suggest that body image is affected by recent food intake (Vocks, Legenbauer, & Heil, 2007) or perceived calorie intake (Thompson, Coovert, Pasman, & Robb, 1993). Other studies have shown that simply thinking about eating fattening, high-caloric food may induce body dissatisfaction (Fett, Lattimore, Roefs, Geschwind, & Jansen, 2009;Geschwind, Roefs, Lattimore, Fett, & Jansen, 2008) and feelings of guilt, fatness and perceived weight gain in restrained eaters (Coelho, Carter, McFarlane, & Polivy, 2008).…”

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The Concept of Body Image Disturbance in Anorexia Nervosa: An Empirical Inquiry Utilizing Patients' Subjective Experiences

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Food intake affects state body image: Impact of restrained eating patterns and concerns about eating, weight and shape

Cited by 52 publications

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Body Image in Eating Disorders: The Influence of Exposure to Virtual-Reality Environments

Body Image in Eating Disorders: The Influence of Exposure to Virtual-Reality Environments

Neural correlates of viewing photographs of one’s own body and another woman’s body in anorexia and bulimia nervosa: an fMRI study

The Concept of Body Image Disturbance in Anorexia Nervosa: An Empirical Inquiry Utilizing Patients' Subjective Experiences

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