Food preferences and eating behavior disorder at patients with metabolic syndrome
Obesity is one of the actual problems of the modern world. The nutrition of the adult population of the planet is not consistent with the principles of a healthy lifestyle, which leads to an increase in overweight, obesity and the formation of a metabolic syndrome. Obesity is heterogeneous from the genetic, physiological, psychological and psychiatric perspectives. From a clinical point of view, the obesity epidemic is dangerous because it is accompanied by a sharp increase in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome components. There are various pathogenetic variants of the association of obesity and anxiety - depressive disorders. Obviously, obesity and depression are often accompanied by eating disorders and eating habits. Nutritional behavior varies depending on the psychosocial, emotional and other factors. Most often with anxiety-depressive disorders in obese patients, forms of eating disorders such as external, emotional, compulsive eating behavior, night eating syndrome are formed. External eating behavior is manifested by an increased reaction of the patient to external stimuli, such as a type of food or a chewing person, food advertising. When emotionally eating behavior, the stimulus to food intake is not hunger, but emotional discomfort. Compulsive eating behavior is clinically manifested binge eating attacks - not permanent, but as if compressed in short periods of time, not exceeding 2 hours. The syndrome of nocturnal food is manifested by a clinical triad of symptoms: morning anorexia, evening and nighttime bulimia.