Übermäßiger Smartphone-Gebrauch steht in engem Zusammenhang mit Essstörungen, einschließlich unkontrolliertem Essen und emotionalem Überessen, sowie mit stärkeren Symptomen einer Esssucht bei jungen Menschen, bei denen keine Essstörung diagnostiziert wurde
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/excessive-smartphone-use-associated-with-symptoms-of-eating-disorder-and-body-dissatisfaction-in-young-people
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>Researchers identified 35 studies in which to include in this systematic review. The studies were from across the globe and provided researchers with a sample size of 52,584 participants with an average age of 17.
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>Their analysis of the data found that higher daily smartphone use was also related to greater food addiction symptoms, broader disordered eating behaviours like uncontrolled eating or emotional overeating, and body dissatisfaction in people with no diagnosis of an eating disorder. The association was particularly strong in those who use their phones for more than seven hours a day.
[JMIR Mental Health – Associations of Problematic Smartphone Use and Smartphone Screen Time With Eating Disorder Psychopathology in Non-Clinical Samples: A Systematic Review](https://mental.jmir.org/2026/1/e88572)
Who could have thought staring at a dopamine machine would affect other areas of our lives?
Is this suggesting a causal link, or is it just that personalities which are attracted to excessive smartphone use are also attracted to excessive eating etc?
So there’s not a one per person limit on vices?
It’s the endless food ads and shorts. TV has been known to have the same effect.
It seems like there might be various causes and relationships.
Screen-time use resulting in less sleep is an interesting point, especially since lack of sleep is causally related to more cravings for worse foods.
Plus I know that watching man vs food made me order takeaway and eat more junk.
>Maladaptive smartphone use may actively (or passively) increase one’s exposure to content related to thinness and body shaping, which may lead to negative affect via self-objectification [111] and increase the risk of developing ED symptoms [112]. In addition, night-time or late-evening smartphone use may interfere with sleep quality. Sleep problems are reported transdiagnostically across the ED spectrum [29] and in subclinical contexts are related to several eating behaviors such as impulsive eating and emotional eating [113]. Indeed, it was found that negative affect as a result of PSU acted as sequential mediators from poor sleep quality to higher ED behaviors in one study [66] and from greater body dissatisfaction to greater disordered eating behaviors in another [77]. Alternatively, individuals with ED symptoms may use smartphones to relieve or avoid negative emotions and stress [114], eventually developing a dependence on smartphones. However, it was found in 1 study that baseline PSU scores positively predicted ED symptoms at a 1-year follow-up but not vice versa [23], which, tentatively, could be a preliminary indicator of causality.
ugh this is literally me scrolling through food tiktok at 2am then raiding the fridge right after.
Based on nothing I see this as true. I noticed I’ve gained a bit of weight and I also doom scroll more than I ever did. It’s messing with my impulse control and reward centre of my brain! I deleted instagram yesterday and put a 40 minute daily limit on Reddit – hopefully being less of a fat bastard will follow haha
OR their anxiety is leading to both
OR the eating disorder causes stress that causes phone addiction
Wouldn’t be crazy