Table 1.

Summary of the Psychological and Behavioral Responses to 6 Months of Caloric Restriction in Humans

Psychological/behavioral responses
Development of eating disorder symptoms
↓ Disinhibition
↓ Binge eating
↓ Concern about body size and shape
↔ Fear of fatness
↔ Purgative behavior
Depressed mood
↓ Multifactorial assessment of eating disorder symptoms depression scale
↔ Beck depression inventory II
Subjective feelings of hunger
↓ Eating inventory, perceived hunger scale
↔ Subjective ratings of hunger, fullness, desire to eat
Quality of life
↑ Physical functioning
↔ Vitality
Cognitive performance
↔ Verbal memory
↔ Short-term memory and retention
↔ Visual perception and memory
↔ Attention/concentration