Compulsive jogging: exercise dependence and associated disorder of eating.
Year: 1989
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: A number of patients have been reported who have developed features of an eating disorder following a desire to increase their level of fitness. CASE HISTORY A 42-year-old male school teacher was referred to the psychiatric out- patient clinic by his general practitioner at the request of his brother who had become concerned by the patient's obsession with fitness and also his marked loss of weight. His weight had dropped from 218 lb to 112 lb in the space of two years. He had always been keen on sport, having played a number of games at a national level. He had also been an enthusiastic golfer from the age of six, at one stage reducing his handicap to two. In 1985 he decided suddenly to improve his physical health, having become markedly overweight at 218 lb and also because of a strong family history of ischaemic heart disease. The patient put himself on a strict diet and although he continued to eat mixed foodstuffs he limited his energy intake to 800-1,000 calories per day. He also took up regular running and ran at least five miles a day followed by one hour in a sauna. Running became his
Source: PubMed
Authors: H A Lyons, R Cromey
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W16817351