Synergistic Dietary Regulation and Psychological Intervention for Emotional Eating in Children and Adolescents
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synergistic dietary regulation, psychological intervention, emotional eating
Abstract
Childhood and adolescent obesity has become a serious public health problem, showing a rapid increase and a trend towards younger onset. Obesity is closely related to emotional eating (EE), yet there is a lack of integrated prevention and control research targeting this issue. Current research largely treats EE as a co-occurring behavior of obesity, with insufficient discussion on collaborative prevention and control in children and adolescents, and a lack of systematic pathway construction for the combined application of dietary and psychological interventions. This paper, based on the "physiological-psychological-social" ecosystem theory, takes EE as the core entry point to analyze its physiological mechanism of association with obesity, reviews the research progress of dietary regulation and psychological interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness intervention, and constructs an integrated obesity prevention and control pathway that combines precise dietary regulation with psychological intervention at the family, school, and community levels. This study provides a theoretical and practical basis for improving the effectiveness of childhood and adolescent obesity prevention and control and perfecting the multi-party collaborative system, and also provides a new overall approach for related prevention and control work. Future research still needs to conduct large-scale longitudinal studies, combined with digital technology and policy support, to achieve personalized and precise management of EE and obesity in children and adolescents, while promoting the further implementation of the multi-party collaborative prevention and control system.
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