Does Eating Disorders and Flexible Dietary Control Effects the Food Craving Arise?

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AbstractBackground It is a hypothesis often thought that food craving may be associated with particularly strict dietary control. However, it is often not thought that a similar situation can be associated with flexible diet control, and even that it can even lead to eating disorder. Therefore, research on flexible diet control and food craving has been very limited to date. Method This study was planned on 500 voluntary adults to determine the relationship of eating disorders with flexible diet control and food craving in adults. Data was collected via Scoff Eating Disorders Scale, Flexible Control of Eating Behavior and, Food Craving Questionnaire. Results Among the participants 27% of women and 19.5% of men are in a position to be considered at risk for eating disorders and totally 55.8% of the participants are not predominantly inclined to flexible diet. As the number of skipping meals increased, the score obtained from the Food Craving Questionnaire score increased by 5,120 while the number of dieting increases, the score obtained from the SCOFF scale increases by 0.322. There was a decrease of 18.766 in the Food Craving Questionnaire score, 1.492 in the Flexible Control of Eating Behavior score, and 0.998 in the SCOFF score in individuals who had been on a diet before. Conclusion It would be advisable to elicit cravings by means of manipulations able to modulate affective states, feelings of control over eating. The goal would be to elicit and extinguish the craving dimensions that might be most relevant to food craving, negative affect and lack of control according to the present research.