title: [Resistance to modification of dietary behavior].
abstract: There exist certain pathological eating behaviors (they deviate from the usual eating pattern in a given environment; ex.: hyperphagia, alcoholism, bulimia, nibbling sweets, etc.): there also exist certain pathogenic, though not pathological, eating behaviors (a "normal" behavior may induce an affection in given subjects; ex.: obesity in subjects with a normal caloric intake, hypercholesterolemia in subjects with a normal lipid intake, etc.). In the perspective of Public Health, the field of pathological behavior calls for specialized individual interventions, which can sometimes serve as research models; but the field of pathogenic behavior is now such a widespread social phenomenon (50% of the female population wishes to reduce, 50% of the male population dies from alimentary-linked cardiovascular diseases) that it must be systematically investigated. Such investigations would require: 1. A typology assessing the effectiveness of all the techniques aimed at a modification of eating behavior, whether preventive or therapeutic (through information, pressure, learning); 2. A typology of the resistance to change, whether physiological, psychological or psychosocial. A study of both typologies is necessary since until now all the attempts to induce a population as a whole to renounce food plethora have been unsuccessful, except when imposed by economic or political motivations. Moreover, in a society oriented toward consuming, a change in eating behaviors must be "consumable", that is, at once adequate and gratifying, in order to be accepted.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D004032:Diet / Q000592:standards; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Les résistances a la modification du comportement alimentaire.