Taste and bulimia.

Binge-eating episodes in bulimia often involve sweet or fat-containing foods. Sensory perceptions and preferences for sweetness and fat content were examined in 16 normal-weight women with a diagnosis of DSM IIIR bulimia and in 16 normal-weight volunteer controls. Taste stimuli were 15 semi-liquid mixtures of dessert-type soft white cheese ("fromage blanc") containing 0, 3 or 7 grams of fat per 100 g, and sweetened with 1, 5, 10, 20, or 40% sucrose (wt.

[Modification of pathogenic dietary behavior. Group technics].

The prevalence of overweight and obesity is high in our societies and it increases at a regular rate. This phenomenon ("the overweight society") reaches a sociological level. Individual solutions to weight problems are time-consuming; moreover their efficience--as demonstrated by statistical studies, is rather poor.

[Is triacetyl oleandomycin-ergotamine tartrate combination dangerous?].

The authors report a case of ischaemia of all four limbs in an adolescent following the simultaneous ingestion of triacetyl oleandomycin and ergotamine tartrate in low dosage. Two cases involving this same association of medications have appeared in the literature and attention is therefore drawn to the possible danger of use of these two drugs together.