Drive for leanness: potentially less maladaptive compared to drives for thinness and muscularity.

CONCLUSIONS: DL was supported as a unique and less maladaptive motivation than DT or DM, suggesting the emergence of a lean ideal may be less problematic than body ideals focused on either thinness or muscularity alone. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: V, cross-sectional descriptive study. PMID: 31342456 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31342456?dopt=Abstract

Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - July 23, 2019 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Lang B, Rancourt D Tags: Eat Weight Disord Source Type: research