Cultural trends and eating disorders

Kathleen Pike;Hans Hoek;Patricia Dunne;

doi:10.1097/YCO.0000000000000100

Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 27(6):436–442, NOVEMBER 2014

DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000100

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PMID: 25211499

Issn Print: 0951-7367

Publication Date: November 2014

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Kathleen Pike;Hans Hoek;Patricia Dunne;

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Purpose of reviewCulture has long been recognized as significant to the cause and expression of eating disorders. We reviewed the recent literature about recent trends in the occurrence of eating disorders in different cultures.Recent findingsWhile historically, eating disorders were conceptualized as primarily afflicting Caucasian adolescent or young adult women within high-income, industrialized Western Europe and North America, eating disorders are increasingly documented in diverse countries and cultures worldwide. This study highlights recent trends that reflect the changing landscape of culture and eating disorders: stabilization of the incidence of anorexia nervosa and possibly lower incidence rates of bulimia nervosa in Caucasian North American and Northern European groups; increasing rates of eating disorders in Asia; increasing rates of eating disorders in the Arab region; and increasing rates of binge eating and bulimia nervosa in Hispanic and Black American minority groups in North America.SummaryThe changing face of eating disorders calls for a new conceptualization of culture in both the emergence and spread of eating disorders across the globe.


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