Advances in the Relationship Between Physical Activity and Eating Disorders

Abstract

Goal: progress of research analyzing the relationship between physical activity and eating disorders through the literature. Methodologies: search for journals and master's and doctoral literature on the topics of "physical exercise" and "eating disorders" on CNKI and foreign knowledge network. Results: first, The factors affecting eating disorders are complex, involving not only the individual's own physiology, but also psychological and other aspects of behavioral; second, although physical activity is only an adjunctive treatment for eating disorders, it can be very preventive; third, the diagnosis rate of eating disorders is increasing year by year in China, but the treatment rate is unsatisfactory; fourth, exercise load and exercise duration need to work together to affect eating disorders, duration of physical activity is more important than load in positively influencing eating disorders, positive effects were greater in open exercise programs than in closed exercise programs, long-term practice of exercise loads such as sprouting can achieve better results. Conclusions: physical exercise is negatively correlated with eating disorders within a certain threshold, but there are fewer domestic research results on the relationship between the two, which need to be confirmed in various aspects through more scientific methods; only in this way can we accelerate the popularization of the preventive effect of physical activity on eating disorders and the alleviation of eating disorder symptoms, and increase the importance of mental health to the people of China.