The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
what you'll see is that anorexia and bulimia are not a breaking of the mindset of what one should do or shouldn't do. It's a disruption of these homeostatic and reward processes, such that decision-making is completely disrupted. And in many cases is not available to the anorexic or bulimic.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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the person who starves themselves to the point where they might die and in some cases, sadly do die. They can know perfectly well that their behavior is leading to bad outcomes and possibly even death. And yet they are not able to intervene unless they get particular clinical help, because the homeostatic processes, the signals from the body and brain that say, you need food. Those aren't registering in the same way that they are for other individuals.