Department of Psychiatry UCSF, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago (Emeritus), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2019 May;32(3):242-247. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000497.
Urbanization has broadly been implicated in negatively impacting mental health, including risk for disordered eating and eating disorders. Understanding the specific mechanisms that contribute to risk for maladaptive eating behavior in the context of urbanization is essential to improving public health policy and guiding future clinical, research, and prevention efforts.
This review of recent investigation related to the impact of urbanization on eating disease highlights specific risk factors for eating disorders, including acculturation to Western standards of beauty and food resources with associated body weight and body image concern.
Recommendations for clinical and research endeavors include improved specificity in defining urbanization, as well as increased sensitivity within community-based assessment of cultural and demographic variables that may impact eating behavior and risk for eating disorders.
城市化广泛地与心理健康产生负面影响相关联，包括饮食失调和进食障碍的风险。了解城市化背景下导致适应不良的饮食行为的具体机制对于改善公共卫生政策和指导未来的临床、研究和预防工作至关重要。
本综述最近关于城市化对饮食疾病的影响的研究结果强调了进食障碍的特定风险因素，包括对西方美的标准和与相关的体重和身体形象问题的食物资源的文化适应。
对临床和研究工作的建议包括更具体地定义城市化，以及在社区基础上更敏感地评估可能影响饮食行为和进食障碍风险的文化和人口统计学变量。
