Physical Effects
This happens to your body's metabolism when food is restricted long-term.
What is slowing down?
Food restriction makes it hard to do this simple mental task.
What is concentrating?
One word that describes your mood when you're underfed.
What is irritable?
Restriction can cause this common eating behavior, which often feels out of control.
What is binge eating?
This famous 1950 study showed that restriction causes major changes in mood and behavior.
What is the Minnesota Starvation Study?
What is low energy/fatigue?
This increases dramatically and can become obsessive when restricting food.
What is thinking about food?
This emotion may become more frequent, even if it's not connected to events.
What is anxiety or depression?
This social habit often disappears when someone restricts food.
What is eating with others/social eating?
This study from the 1980s discussed how dieting could lead to binge eating.
What is Polivy & Herman, 1985?
These are two physical symptoms that might be mistaken for other conditions but are due to restriction.
What are dizziness and feeling cold?
People often have trouble with this kind of decision-making.
What is judgment or executive functioning?
Restriction can numb emotions or amplify them - what is this called in therapy-speak?
What is emotional dysregulation?
Restriction can create food rituals. Give an example.
What is cutting food into tiny pieces, eating very slowly, etc.
Kaye, et al., 1993 showed that restriction could alter this part of your physiology.
What are neurochemical or hormonal responses?
This aspect of health, often linked with female biology, can stop due to prolonged food restriction.
What is menstruation?
True or false: restriction makes your brain work more efficiently.
What is false?
This common mental state becomes harder to maintain during restriction.
What is emotional resilience or stability?
After a period of restriction, this behavior often increases - especially when alone.
What is secret eating?
This group was used in the Minnesota study to simulate starvation.
Who are conscientious objectors during WWII?
Name a digestive effect of restriction.
What is constipation or bloating?
This famous study showed how food restriction affected cognition.
What is the Minnesota Starvation Study?
True or false: your mood improves the longer you restrict.
What is false?
Restriction often causes what kind of preoccupation?
What is obsession with food or body image?
The participants in the Minnesota study displayed this unexpected behavior with food.
What is hoarding or collecting recipes despite not eating?