Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology

Purging behaviors are compensatory behaviors used by eating disorder patients, in which they forcibly eject food from their bodies in an effort to regulate their weight and/or physical appearance (Wade,…

The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory is a theory of personality that proposes that there are 3 systems in the brain regulating that underlie individual differences in sensitivity to reward, punishment, and…

The intentional restriction of food intake to prevent weight gain or to promote weight loss. Restrained eating is consistently linked with overeating behaviors in response to negative psychological processes incurred…

Restrictive eating refers to intentionally limiting the amount, type, or variety of food consumed. It may involve consciously eating less, avoiding particular foods, restricting food choices, or limiting intake because of concerns about weight, body shape, health, or other motivations.

Small, evaporative molecules emanating from foods in our mouth while chewing that travel from the oral cavity through the nasopharynx subsequently stimulating receptors on the nose’s olfactory epithelium. Retronasal odors…

An appetite-related stimulus given to a human or animal that, because of its rewarding characteristics, influences repeated consumption and reinforces the probability of that consumption occurring again. In the Diet-Mental…

Neural circuits and pathways (including dopamine) that are activated by rewarding stimuli, such as high-calorie, palatable foods. These systems play a key role in reinforcing eating behavior, influencing food preferences…

The robustness of a microbiota refers to the degree of change in the microbiota after a disturbance and its ability to recover from this impact. It is an intriguing scale…

The routine is the actual behavior or action that follows the cue. It's the habitual activity that you perform in response to the cue.

Rumination disorder is a DSM-5-TR feeding and eating disorder involving repeated regurgitation of food for at least one month, where food is re-chewed, re-swallowed, or spat out. It reflects a learned disruption of post-meal digestive and interoceptive regulation not explained by a medical condition.