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The topic of this lecture is on
"Dysregulated Eating Behavior,
Eating Disorders and Obesity."
My name is Ulrike Schmidth,
and I'm professor
of eating disorders
at King's College, London.
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I will start
with a brief introduction.
I will then go on
to look at terminology,
classification
and epidemiology in this area.
I will then go on
to present some information
on the clinical features
of bulimic disorders
before going on to the etiology
of both bulimic behaviors
and disorders.
And I will finish on treatment
and outcome.
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Let's first look at
the relationship
between dysregulated eating
and eating disorders
on the one hand
and obesity on the other.
This is a bidirectional
relationship,
as can be seen on this diagram
and as we will learn
over the course of this lecture.
So people who have
dysregulated eating
or eating disorders
can develop obesity
and people
with established obesity
can also develop
dysregulated eating
or eating disorders,
which in turn may make
their obesity worse.
Now, what do we mean
by dysregulated eating?
The lay public talks about
comfort eating
and compulsive eating.
The scientific literature
mentions nibbling,
grazing, snacking, night eating,
but most prominently,
binge eating
and a variant of this,
loss of control eating.
And two eating disorders,
both of which have binge eating
as their key symptom
are binge eating disorder
and bulimia nervosa.
