Eating Disorders and Obesity: a Comprehensive Handbook

TL;DR: This meta-analytic review of prospective and experimental studies reveals that several accepted risk factors for eating pathology have not received empirical support or have received contradictory support, and the predictive power of individual risk and maintenance factors was limited.

TL;DR: In clinical practice, measuring waist circumference in addition to the body mass index could be helpful for the identification and management of a subgroup of overweight or obese patients at high cardiometabolic risk.

TL;DR: Common risk factors from longitudinal and cross-sectional studies were gender, ethnicity, early childhood eating and gastrointestinal problems, elevated weight and shape concerns, negative self-evaluation, sexual abuse and other adverse experiences, and general psychiatric morbidity.

TL;DR: The characteristics of clinical perfectionism are reviewed and a new definition of the phenomenon is proposed, suggesting that people with perfectionism react to failure to meet their standards with self-criticism and if they do meet their Standards, the standards are re-evaluated as being insufficiently demanding.

TL;DR: This meta-analytic review of prospective and experimental studies reveals that several accepted risk factors for eating pathology have not received empirical support or have received contradictory support, and the predictive power of individual risk and maintenance factors was limited.

TL;DR: New brain imaging technology provides insights into ventral and dorsal neural circuit dysfunction — perhaps related to altered serotonin and dopamine metabolism — that contributes to the puzzling symptoms found in people with eating disorders.

TL;DR: The social and psychological origins of this bias are examined through a review and critique of theoretical and empirical literatures, and how the field might best advance in the area of reducing stigma is proposed.

TL;DR: Findings in brain chemistry and neuroimaging are reviewed that shed new light on understanding the psychopathology of these difficult and frustrating disorders.