Recent experimental evidence that dietary restriction results in decreased bulimic and
depressive symptoms seems inconsistent with findings from prospective studies and …

It is widely accepted that dieting increases the risk for bulimia nervosa, but there have been
few experimental tests of this theory. The authors conducted a randomized experiment with …

Although it is widely accepted that dieting increases the risk for bulimic pathology, this
hypothesis has not been tested in a randomized experiment. Accordingly, the authors …

Prospective studies indicate that elevated scores on dietary restraint scales predict bulimic
symptom onset, but experiments indicate that assignment to dietary restriction interventions …

This study uses prospective data from a survey of 1,177 adolescent girls to examine whether
emotional eating, binge eating, abnormal attitudes to eating and weight, low self-esteem …

The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the impact of changes in dietary restraint
(chronic dieting) on changes in body weight over time. Subjects were 305 (98 male, 207 …

Objective: The causes of adult weight gain leading to obesity are uncertain. We examined
the association of adult weight gain and obesity with subscales of eating behavior …

Although adolescent girls with elevated dietary restraint scores are at increased risk for
future binge eating and bulimic pathology, they do not eat less than those with lower …

Objective: This study tested a secondary hypothesis of the CALERIE trial (Heilbronn et al.,
2006) that a 12-month period of intentional dietary restriction would be associated with an …

The finding that dietary restraint scales predict onset of bulimic pathology has been
interpreted as suggesting that dieting causes this eating disturbance, despite the dearth of …