Lloyd EC, Powell C, Schebendach J, et al. - Among individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN), treatments that target mealtime anxiety may improve eating and nourishment. The results demonstrate that interventions like exposure therapy that provide skills in overcoming mealtime anxiety might be enhanced by informing patients that post-meal anxiety is not related to intake.

• Pre-meal anxiety was significantly associated with reduced calorie intake and reduced consumption of calories from fat at the meal among individuals with AN; these relationships were not observed among healthy comparison individuals.

• No evidence for an association between calorie/fat intake at the meal and post-meal anxiety in either group was observed.