4 Topic Commentaries

Smartphones linked to disordered eating

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  Jason M. Nagata, MD, MSc

  Adolescent Medicine; Eating Disorders

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  University of California, San Francisco

  Screen time lends itself to more sedentary time and less physical activity, snacking while distracted, eating in the absence of hunger, and greater exposure to food advertising.

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  Chantal J. Gil, PsyD

  Clinical Psychology; Eating Disorders

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  Duke University

  These smartphone applications have the potential to help individuals with specific health-related goals, however they also have the potential to trigger, maintain, or worsen disordered eating symptoms (Miller, 2015).

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  Adrienne S. Juarascio, PhD

  Clinical Psychology; Eating Disorders

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  Drexel University

  When a person is experiencing an urge to binge or other distressing emotional experience, it’s often difficult to remember and utilize the skills they’ve learned in therapy.

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  Carol Vidal, MD, PhD, MPH

  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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  Johns Hopkins Medicine

  Especially since the pandemic, isolated at home and there was not a lot of rewarding things to do, there was an increase in eating disorders and more social media use among kids.

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