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Amount of calories retained after binge eating and vomiting
W H Kaye1, T E Weltzin, L K Hsu
1Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh PA 15213.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|June 1, 1993
Abstract:
While caloric consumption during binge eating has been measured, it is not known how many of the calories are retained in the gastrointestinal tract after vomiting. In 17 normal weight bulimic patients, there appeared to be a ceiling on the number of calories retained after vomiting. That is, whether or not bulimic patients had small (mean = 1,549 kcal, SD = 505) or large (mean = 3,530 kcal, SD = 438) binges, they retained similar amounts of kilocalories (mean = 1,128, SD = 497, versus mean = 1,209, SD = 574, respectively) after vomiting.