Decrease in resting metabolic rate during abstinence from bulimic behavior
- 1 August 1991
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 148 (8) , 1071-1072
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.148.8.1071
Abstract
Among eight normal-weight bulimic women studied during 1 week of binge eating and vomiting and 7 weeks of abstinence without weight loss, resting metabolic rate and T3 and T4 levels fell significantly during abstinence. These data suggest that a physiological consequence of binge eating and vomiting is an increase in metabolic rate, in part due to increased thyroid hormone activity.Keywords
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