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. 2013;21(3):265-74.
doi: 10.1080/10640266.2013.779190.

What contributes to excessive diet soda intake in eating disorders: appetitive drive, weight concerns, or both?

Tiffany A Brown  1 , Pamela K Keel
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What contributes to excessive diet soda intake in eating disorders: appetitive drive, weight concerns, or both?

Tiffany A Brown et al. Eat Disord. 2013.

Abstract

Excessive diet soda intake is common in eating disorders. The present study examined factors contributing to excessive intake in a sample of individuals with lifetime eating disorders based on proposed DSM-5 criteria (n = 240) and non-eating disorder controls (n = 157). Individuals with eating disorders, particularly bulimia nervosa, consumed more diet soda than controls. Eating disorder symptoms that reflect increased appetitive drive or increased weight concerns were associated with increased diet soda intake. Increased weight concerns were associated with increased diet soda intake when levels of appetitive drive were high, but not when they were low. Results highlight the importance of monitoring diet soda intake in individuals with eating disorders and may have implications for the maintenance of dysregulated taste reward processing in bulimia nervosa.

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