TY - JOUR
T1 - Anorexia
T2 - A perverse effect of attempting to control the starvation response
AU - Nesse, Randolph
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Our research has been supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council under grant BB/J016446/1 and the European Research Council under grant AdG 666669 (COMSTAR).
Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31500901) and the Education Project for Young Scholar, Shanghai Planning Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences, China (B1701).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Starvation arouses evolved protective mechanisms including binge eating and increased metabolic efficiency and fat storage. When aroused by dieting, the experiences of out-of-control eating, increased appetite, and increased fat storage arouse greater fears of obesity, spurring renewed attempts to restrict intake severely. The resulting positive feedback cycle escalates into bulimia for many, and anorexia in a few.
AB - Starvation arouses evolved protective mechanisms including binge eating and increased metabolic efficiency and fat storage. When aroused by dieting, the experiences of out-of-control eating, increased appetite, and increased fat storage arouse greater fears of obesity, spurring renewed attempts to restrict intake severely. The resulting positive feedback cycle escalates into bulimia for many, and anorexia in a few.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X16001503
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X16001503
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29342586
AN - SCOPUS:85040794023
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 40
SP - 31
EP - 32
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
M1 - e125
ER -