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The result was delete. Jayjg ^(talk) 02:19, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Four of the five references given point to copies of the same press release. There is no evidence of notability, and the concept doesn't even make sense, given the description in the press release, which says that "food stress syndrome" is measured by determining the extent to which people change their eating habits. Since people can choose to eat or avoid certain foods based on new information without incurring stress over it, the explanation doesn't make sense. Further, when I run a Google search for "food stress syndrome" -unprecedented I get only 12 hits, including this article and several others that appear unrelated. Google Books and Google Scholar return nothing. Google News Archive returns one article from Eugene, Oregon, in 1990 that is from a different context. —Largo Plazo (talk) 19:51, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• delete - per nom, not yet a notable or verifiable phenomenon, and press releases aren't reliable sources. -Miskaton (talk) 20:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. -- —Largo Plazo (talk) 21:05, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An IP user added the following to the Medicine deletion sorting page, I am moving it here. Fences&Windows 20:01, 27 October 2009 (UTC):[reply]

• Food Stress Syndrome is a new phenomenon in our society that have been studied and measured in the course of some 4 surveys in Canada. The first source is a link to the summary of the last survey conducted in 2007 or 2008. A few conferences were given on this topic such as The Canadian Society of Nutrition Management (CSNM) at their annual conference in Montreal, Quebec, May 22-24, 2008 at the Mariott Chateau Champlain. Many other conferences were pronounced in French under the "Syndrome de Stress Alimentaire" title. To ignore this phenomenon is like to ignore the impact of food and nutrition science research on consumers' attitude and behaviour. It would be short sighted to do so! Great concept! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.157.229 (talk • contribs) [1]
  • The only phenomenon that the article mentions is that some people avoid food that they are told is bad for them or make a point of eating good they are told is good for them. (1) This is not a "phenomenon" except in the most trivial sense.The scientific term for it is "Duh!" (2) "Stress" is not a term for this. Perhaps there is an actual concept by the name "Food Stress Syndrome", but the concept described in the current article is not that concept, and we don't need to have an article by that name until someone chooses to write an article about the topic that it denotes. —Largo Plazo (talk) 20:33, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. This is a term coined by Isabelle Paquet of the Canadian commercial nutrition consultants, ISA-Nutrition, and is only used in their press releases. It has no notability. Fences&Windows 20:07, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all of it is based on a very few unpublished papers from a commercial firm. This is not significant publication. The ip's argument amounts to: it ought to be notable, and might be some day--which is of course not the same as being notable already. DGG ( talk ) 23:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article on French Wikipedia is also on its way to deletion. Fences&Windows 04:41, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. I'm intrigued by the new addition to the article, "“Food Stress” is often thought to be an eating disorder". Almost no one's heard of it before; how can it be "often thought to be" anything? —Largo Plazo (talk) 14:22, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I sure hope I gave enough references! This concept and every study that goes with it came from French Canadian minds. Only a few publications were made in English such as at the annual Congress of the Canadian Society of Nutrition Management (CSNM) held in Montreal in May 2008. For more explanations, please consult the French version of Wikipedia. Sorry for that! On the other hand, how could you explain that this concept made it way around the globe if it was not observed everywhere? Science is barely beginning to study the impact and effects of food on human health. The consequences of those findings are having an impact on the way we eat and this phenomenon now has a name: FSS! It may seem trivial but it made a lot of sense to me and to everybody else to who I talk to! François Houde — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.157.229 (talk • contribs)

Articles by you and your colleagues in promotional trade journals like l'Alimentation is not independent, so cannot be used to show notability. Fences&Windows 01:14, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete "For more explanations, please consult the French version of Wikipedia", 'k [2] doesn't look like they're any more impressed than us. Wikipédia est une encyclopédie, indeed. Can't find any evidence that this is an actual scientific concept, to suggest otherwise borders on spam. I assume there's plenty of other articles where information on consumer behaviour patterns re: food could go - if properly sourced - without going to all the bother of trying to popularise a neologism. Declan Clam (talk) 01:29, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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