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Intuitive eating is associated with interoceptive sensitivity. Effects on body mass index

Herbert, Beate M., Blechert, Jens, Hautzinger, Martin, Matthias, Ellen, Herbert, Cornelia·2013·Appetite
DOI 10.1016/j.appet.2013.06.082
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Intuitive eating is relevant for adaptive eating, body weight and well-being and impairments are associated with dieting and eating disorders. It is assumed to depend on the ability to recognize one's signs of hunger and fullness and to eat accordingly. This suggests a link to the individual ability to perceive and processes bodily signals (interoceptive sensitivity, IS) which has been shown to be associated with emotion processing and behavior regulation. This study was designed to clarify the relationships between IS as measured by a heartbeat perception task, intuitive eating and body mass index (BMI) in N=111 healthy young women. Intuitive eating was assessed by the Intuitive Eating Scale (IES) with three facets, reliance on internal hunger and satiety cues (RIH), eating for physical rather than emotional reasons (EPR), and unconditional permission to eat when hungry (UPE). IS was not only positively related to total IES score and RIH and EPR, and negatively predicted BMI, but also proved to fully mediate the negative relationship between RIH, as well as EPR and BMI. Additionally, the subjective appraisal of one's interoceptive signals independently predicted EPR and BMI. IS represents a promising mechanism in research on eating behavior and body weight.

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  • Interoception appears to be associated with health-related decision-making, such as intuitive eating and regulation of physical load during activity.

    “Interoception also appears to be associated with health-related decision-making, such as intuitive eating (Herbert et al., 2013) and regulation of physical load during activity (Herbert et al., 2007).”

    From Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review (2021) · cites this paper as Herbert et al., 2013

  • More accurate perception of body signals may facilitate more adaptive responses to pain, healthier eating habits, improvements in social relationships, better stress management, and other adaptive behaviors.

    “More accurate perception of body signals may facilitate more adaptive responses to pain (Villemure et al., 2014), healthier eating habits (Herbert et al., 2013), improvements in social relationships (Porges, 2011; Gibson, 2014), better stress management (Bornemann et al., 2015), and other adaptive behaviors.”

    From Mindfulness, Interoception, and the Body: A Contemporary Perspective (2019) · cites this paper as Herbert et al., 2013

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Authors
Herbert, B. M., Blechert, J., Hautzinger, M., Matthias, E., & Herbert, C.
Affiliations
  • Universität Ulm (DE)
  • University of Tübingen (DE)
  • University of Würzburg (DE)
Corresponding author
Herbert, Beate M.
ORCID
Venue
Appetite
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-11
Volume
70
Pages
22-30
ISSN
0195-6663 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.appet.2013.06.082
OpenAlex
W2071214247
Cited by
220
References
85
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 6
FWCI
18.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Appetite (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Keywords
intuitive eating, interoceptive sensitivity, body mass index, heartbeat perception, hunger and satiety cues, unconditional permission to eat, mediation, dietary habits, body weight, young women
MeSH terms
Adult, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Body Weight, Cross-Sectional Studies, Cues, Eating, Emotions, Feeding Behavior, Female, Humans, Hunger, Surveys and Questionnaires, Satiation, Body Mass Index, Linear Models, Intuition, Young Adult

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