4 research outputs found
Healthism and the experiences of social, healthcare and self-stigma of women with higher weight
This study analyses how the discourse of healthism contributes to the social construction of weight stigma in women with higher-weight. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine women who had undergone bariatric surgery and had lived with higher-weight during many years. A thematic analysis from a latent and constructionist perspective showed how the discourse of healthism was behind the experiences of stigma lived by the participants in the social and healthcare field. Even instances of self-stigma were found in our data. This study also illustrates how people influenced by healthism assumed individualism and the importance of body shape, core values of neoliberal consumer societies. In this way, people tended to blame women with higher-weight for their weight and to discriminate against for being far from the socially established ideal body. The findings can be useful to prevent weight stigmatization and to promote more appropriate and respectful strategies for obesity prevention and treatment
Preclinical models of stress and environmental influences on binge eating
Preclinical models cannot explain all of the
complex internal and external factors that
influence eating behaviors in humans. Still,
they represent an essential tool to investigate
the underlying neuro- and psychobiology
implicated in disorders that are associated
with binge eating. Several environmental
conditions induce aberrant feeding behavior
on calorie-dense food in animal models of
binge eating. Various kinds of stress (acute or
chronic), the combination of repeated cycles of
food restriction and refeeding plus stress, food
deprivation, and limited access to palatable
food have been used to elicit binge-like eating
episodes to model human behaviors. Animal
studies have revealed the involvement of different
neurotransmitter pathways, especially
dopamine, opioids, CRF, serotonin, orexin,
and GABAergic systems in binge-like eating.
They may aid in the ultimate goal of
identifying novel, safe, and effective therapeutic
targets