RevealED: Uncovering Pro-Eating Disorder Content on Twitter Using Deep Learning [PDF]
The Covid-19 pandemic induced a vast increase in adolescents diagnosed with eating disorders and hospitalized due to eating disorders. This immense growth stemmed partially from the stress of the pandemic but also from increased exposure to content that promotes eating disorders via social media, which, within the last decade, has become plagued by pro-
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BINGE EATING DISORDER AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF CANDIDATES TO BARIATRIC SURGERY
Background : Obesity decreases the quality of life, which is aggravated by the association of comorbidities, and the binge eating disorder is directly related to body image and predisposes to overweight.
Ana Júlia Rosa Barcelos COSTA+1 more
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Feeding the Crave: How People with Eating Disorders Get Trapped in the Perpetual Cycle of Digital Food Content [PDF]
Recent studies have examined how digital food content impacts viewers' dietary health. A few have found that individuals with eating disorders are particularly sensitive to digital food content, such as eating and cooking videos, which contribute to disordered eating behaviors.
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Eating disorders, like binge eating, have a strong association with schizophrenia. Illness characteristics like disordered eating, cognition, and behavior can lead to eating disorders.
Hyung Jin Choi
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Binge eating disorder and obesity [PDF]
Binge eating disorder (BED) was included in the DSM IV as a proposed diagnostic category for further study and as an example for an eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS). BED is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating in the absence of regular compensatory behavior such as vomiting or laxative abuse.
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What is OSFED? The predicament of classifying ‘other’ eating disorders
The transition from DSM-IV to DSM-5 relaxed diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and recognised a third eating disorder, binge eating disorder.
Zoe M. Jenkins+3 more
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The Binge Eating Genetics Initiative (BEGIN): study protocol
Background The Binge Eating Genetics Initiative (BEGIN) is a multipronged investigation examining the interplay of genomic, gut microbiota, and behavioral factors in bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
Cynthia M. Bulik+8 more
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Radicalized by Thinness: Using a Model of Radicalization to Understand Pro-Anorexia Communities on Twitter [PDF]
The rise in eating disorders, a condition with serious health complications, has been linked to the proliferation of idealized body images on social media platforms. However, the relationship between social media and eating disorders is more complex, with online platforms potentially enabling harmful behaviors by linking people to ``pro-ana ...
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A Novel Site-Agnostic Multimodal Deep Learning Model to Identify Pro-Eating Disorder Content on Social Media [PDF]
Over the last decade, there has been a vast increase in eating disorder diagnoses and eating disorder-attributed deaths, reaching their zenith during the Covid-19 pandemic. This immense growth derived in part from the stressors of the pandemic but also from increased exposure to social media, which is rife with content that promotes eating disorders ...
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A Data Driven End-to-end Approach for In-the-wild Monitoring of Eating Behavior Using Smartwatches [PDF]
The increased worldwide prevalence of obesity has sparked the interest of the scientific community towards tools that objectively and automatically monitor eating behavior. Despite the study of obesity being in the spotlight, such tools can also be used to study eating disorders (e.g.
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