Eating and body attitudes related to noncompetitive bodybuilding in military and general Hungarian male student populations.

Pathological eating attitudes and extreme weight control practices occur most commonly in certain female populations. In some young male occupation groups, such as in the armed forces, the appearance of physical strength and muscularity has particular importance. We studied body and eating attitudes and the prevalence of bodybuilding and steroid abuse in 480 military college and 752 general college male students.

[Eating disorders in a health-psychology approach: model of pathogenic processing of cognitive information].

A new theoretical approach of cognitive information processing in eating disorders is introduced. It is based on the system theory with a view on health psychology. We are going to emphasize the deviations in the self-concept, the role of procedural memory in body image disturbance and the content of working memory supporting the appearance of cognitive dysfunctions in eating disorders.