Burokas, Aurelijus (Date of defense: 2013-11-15)
The rapid increase of obesity has encouraged the study of the aetiology of eating disorders. Besides genetic, social and metabolic factors, obesity is caused by over-eating and has high rate of relapse ...
Gallego Román, Ana María (Date of defense: 2022-05-26)
Binge-eating disorder (BED) is a chronic eating disturbance that affects 1.6-2.0% of people worldwide. It is characterised by recurrent episodes of consuming large amounts of food in a short period, together ...
Domingo Rodriguez, Laura (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
The easy access to palatable foods is a major contributing factor for compulsive eating and development of food addiction, a disorder closely linked to obesity and binge eating disorder. The concept of ...
Kummer, Sami (Date of defense: 2020-09-29)
El tabaquismo es la principal causa de muerte evitable en todo el mundo, responsable de más de 7 millones de muertes al año. La nicotina es el principal componente psicoactivo del tabaco y la responsable ...
Mancino, Samantha (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
The increase incidence of obesity and eating disorders represents a major health problem in developed countries. The low rate of success of treatments to prevent or reverse obesity, and overeating that ...