Food preferences and desire to eat in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to identify differences in food preferences between normal and eating disordered patients. The results showed that eating disordered patients preferred to eat high-calorie foods while normal subjects had an equal preference for both high- and low-calorie foods. Moreover, eating disordered patients tended to have certain food preferences but were less likely to have the desire to eat such foods. The results suggest that a psychological component has replaced the sense of taste in influencing desire to eat among eating disordered patients.

Food habits

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Olfactory dysfunction in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

Article Abstract:

Low -weight anorexics with severe and prolonged starvation were found to have incurable deficits in the olfactory system which are compounded by smoking. Impairment in olfactory function occurs in only very low weight anorexics and not in patients with other types of eating disorders. These patients did not show any improvement in olfactory function despite considerable weight gain. Smoking had only minor effect on olfactory function and resulted in its impairment only in very low weight anorexia nervosa patients.

Causes of, Smell disorders, Olfaction disorders

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Improved eating behavior in eating-disordered inpatients after treatment: documentation in a naturalistic setting

Article Abstract:

Documentation of eating behavior in a naturalistic setting reveals that multidisciplinary treatment improves eating behavior in eating disordered patients. Treatment leads to increased energy and fat content intake in patients with anorexia nervosa of restrictive subtype and bulimia nervosa patients. Pre-treatment low hunger and decreased satiety levels get normalized after treament. There are only nonsignificant changes in anorexia nervosa of bulimia subtype.

Care and treatment

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