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Integration of Physical Exercise in Feeding and Eating Disorders and Exercise Dependence Treatment: Is It a Possibility, an Impracticality, or an Overcoming Challenge?
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Author(s): Roberta Frontini (Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechCare), Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal)and Inês Leal (Medilis, Leiria, Portugal)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 21
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Combining Exercise and Psychotherapy to Treat Mental Health
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Lara Carneiro (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)and Felipe Schuch (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6040-5.ch007
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Abstract
The physical and mental benefits of physical activity are unquestionable. However, while much research has been done into the benefits of exercise in the prevention and treatment of numerous physical illnesses, the study of the impact of exercise on psychopathological conditions is more recent. Moreover, for several reasons, there are some grey areas and some controversy regarding physical exercise in patients with feeding and eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia. This controversy may stem from several issues. On the one hand, because there is a fine line between healthy physical exercise and over-exercising (which may become exercise dependence); on the other hand, because of the strong association that some mental disorders (such as anorexia) have with disruptive exercise use, with several clinicians and researchers implying that exercise may eventually cause a feeding and eating disorder.
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