Restrained eating behaviour has been linked to abnormalities in metabolic and endocrine functions.
Further, we demonstrate that conceptual fluency mediates the effect, subjective nutrition knowledge weakens the effect, and restrained eating behavior strengthens the effect.
Restrained eating behaviour has, therefore, a significant impact on both fasting and postprandial glucose metabolism, being associated with increased insulin sensitivity.
Using an experimental design, this study examined the interactive effects of self-weighing and restrained eating status on the body mass index of university students over 12 weeks.
The DEBQ restrained eating score was used in moderated regression analyses (see below).
PubMed, Medline, ScienceDirect, Ovid, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were used to search for VBM studies that examined people who had restrained eating patterns, specifically, people currently ill with AN.
Restrained eating [ 9], which has been described as the tendency to consciously restrict food intake to control body weight or promote weight loss, might have the paradoxical effect of inducing increased adiposity, through frequent episodes of loss of control and disinhibited eating.
This 33-item questionnaire assesses three eating styles that reflect dysfunctional regulation of food intake: 1) external eating (i.e. the tendency to eat in response to external cues), 2) emotional eating (i.e. the tendency to overeat in response to emotions) and 3) restrained eating (i.e. the tendency to attempt to refrain from eating) [ 75].
Regarding psychological risk factors, OW/OB children had significantly higher scores on impulsivity, restrained eating behavior, and parental corporal punishment than NW children, which is in line with previous studies of older children [ 6- 8, 17- 21, 25, 26] and confirms the association between those factors and childhood obesity.
Restrained eating, characterized by largely unsuccessful efforts to control eating, may lead to elevated cortisol levels.
Findings suggest that self-weighing frequency had differential effects on weight control depending upon restrained eating status.
