Contaminated and Unusual Food Combinations: What Do People with Prader-Willi Syndrome Choose?.

Dykens, Elisabeth M.

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ERIC Number: EJ606556

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2000

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Contaminated and Unusual Food Combinations: What Do People with Prader-Willi Syndrome Choose?

Dykens, Elisabeth M.

Mental Retardation, v38 n2 p163-71 Apr 2000

This study examined the willingness to eat contaminated food and odd food combinations in 50 adolescents and adults with Prader-Willi syndrome and controls (some matched for IQ). Although Prader-Willi subjects and mentally retarded controls showed similar understandings about food, the Prader-Willi subjects endorsed eating contaminated food as well as unusual edible and inedible food combinations. (Contains references.) (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attitudes, Congenital Impairments, Eating Disorders, Eating Habits, Mental Retardation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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