5. Clinical Implications
obsessive-compulsive disorders, food-specific disgust, eating disorders, eating disorder
PATHOLOGY
In order to draw clinical conclusions, longitudinal studies on the relevance of disgust for the development of eating disorder pathology are needed. If this causal connection is confirmed, then strategies that enable people to modify their perception of food-specific disgust could be useful for the prevention and treatment of AN and other eating disorders.So far, most interventions for AN have focused on food-related fears rather than disgust around food or eating. Our study highlights the importance of targeting food-specific disgust as well. Behavioural strategies—for example, exposure and counterconditioning of US revaluation—are recommended to reduce extinction-resistant disgust responses in the literature on obsessive-compulsive disorders [