Body composition, eating behavior, food-body concerns and eating disorders in adolescent girls.

Aims: Dieting is a behavioral phenomenon which is becoming more frequent among adolescents and the search for weight loss, through dieting, may result in an unbalanced nutrition both quantitatively and qualitatively. Our study intended to look at the eating habits and behavior on a cohort of adolescent girls to verify the presence of unbalanced diets and the prevalence of eating disorders with particular attention to the partial syndromes (EDNOS).

Methods: A cross-sectional double-stage study was carried out on a group of schoolgirls in the suburbs of Naples.

Interdisciplinary treatment of a female outpatient population. Organizational model and preliminary results.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of diet alone vs interdisciplinary therapy.

Method: 256 women were divided into an interdisciplinary therapy group composed of 102 subjects and a control group composed of 154 subjects treated by means of diet alone.

Results: 21.

The three-factor eating questionnaire in the evaluation of eating behaviour in subjects seeking participation in a dietotherapy programme.

Aim: To evaluate the eating behaviour in normal-weight, overweight, and obese women seeking participation in a diet-based programme of weight reduction or achievement of ideal body weight.

Methods: Thirty-seven obese, 42 overweight, and 14 normal-weight subjects, seen at an Italian university outpatient clinic, were asked to complete the Stunkard and Messick three-factor eating questionnaire (TFEQ). The TFEQ is designed to evaluate three different factors in eating behaviour: restraint, disinhibition, and hunger.

The Eating Disorder Inventory in evaluation of impaired eating behaviour in subjects requesting nutritional consultation.

The present study evaluated impaired eating behaviour in women seeking participation in a diet-based programme of weight reduction or achievement of ideal body weight. Forty-seven obese, 42 overweight and 14 normal-weight subjects, attending an Italian university outpatient clinic completed the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI). Forty-eight mothers of primary school children (25 normal-weight and 23 overweight) were used as controls.