id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-291275-qylkm2tn Khosravi, Mohsen The challenges ahead for patients with feeding and eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-09-07 .txt text/plain 1414 71 44 However, the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the patients with feeding and eating disorders (FEDs) are at this stage unclear. The COVID-19 pandemic can potentially aggravate FEDs and the associated mental health symptoms because of the intensified economic limitations resulting in food insecurity (that is, restricted food access caused by economic problems). These exacerbations may be caused due to several reasons, such as the stress-triggering impacts of the daily reports of new cases and mortality rate of the disease (some mental health professionals call it "headline stress disorder" [11] ; worrying about infection and death of their family members [12] ; the inescapable media coverage on the grocery shopping, food safety, food shortages threats, and "how to control emotional eating"; or the focus of some online contents regarding the pandemic on "how to appear perfect on a webcam") as well as at-home workout challenges can involuntarily strengthen the eating-disorder behaviors and cognitions [9] . ./cache/cord-291275-qylkm2tn.txt ./txt/cord-291275-qylkm2tn.txt