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Test meal intake in obese binge eaters in relation to mood and gender
Author(s) -
Geliebter Allan,
Hassid Galia,
Hashim Sami A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/eat.1047
Subject(s) - meal , overweight , psychology , mood , binge eating , binge eating disorder , depression (economics) , obesity , medicine , clinical psychology , eating disorders , bulimia nervosa , macroeconomics , economics
Objective We assessed test meal intake in men and women with and without binge eating disorder (BED) in relation to mood score (Zung scale). Methods Eighty‐five overweight subjects (24 males and 61 females) participated; 30 subjects with BED and 55 without BED. Following an 8‐hr fast, subjects consumed a liquid test meal until extremely full. Results BED subjects consumed significantly more (p = .009) of the test meal (1,032 g ± 429) than the non‐binge eaters (737 g ± 399). The men ingested more than the women (p = .002). BED subjects also had higher depression scores (p = .01), without differing by gender. However, depression scores were unrelated to test meal intakes (r = −.01). Discussion The larger meal intakes of the BED group may be due to the larger stomach capacity previously found in both bulimics and obese subjects. The findings also support the premise that BED, listed in the DSM‐IV appendix for further study, is found in a distinct subgroup of overweight individuals. © 2001 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 29: 488–494, 2001.