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Eating Disorders
Eating
Disorders
 Fact or Fiction?
 Eating Disorders only affect Females.
 Eating Disorders can be life threatening.
 Mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors
related to food
 More than just food
 Emotions, thoughts, and attitudes
Eating
Disorders
 What types of eating disorders have you heard about?
 Anorexia Nervosa
 Bulimia
 Binge Eating Disorder
 Can be a source of anxiety
 Does not eat enough food to maintain a healthy body weight
Anorexia
Nervosa
 Normal appetite & hunger pains
 Symptoms
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Extreme weight loss
Slowed heart and breathing rates
Dry skin
Fine body hair
Loss of menstrual period
 90% of all cases are female
 Health Risks-Addiction
Anorexia
Nervosa
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See themselves as fat
Work harder to lose weight
Excessive exercise or diet
Lack of essential minerals causes heart to
suddenly stop
 Possible Causes
Anorexia
Nervosa
 Usually a good student
 Lack of a certain chemical that regulates
mood
 Low self-esteem
 Troubled relationships
 A person with a parent or sibling with an
eating disorder are far likelier to develop
one themselves
 Treatment
Anorexia
Nervosa
 First treated in hospitals
 Doctors, nurses, and dietitians
 Stop weight loss and change eating habits
 Mental health experts
 Correct emotional problems
 Family help
 Anorexia literally means “lack of appetite.” Why is that a
misconception of those with the disorder?
Anorexia
Nervosa
 Discuss diet with friends or secretive?
 Excited to share weight loss or try to hide it?
 Goal for losing weight?
 They have normal appetite and hunger, they just choose not to
give in.
 Talk to a trusted adult if worried
 Go on uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging, or
removing, the food from their bodies
 Vomiting
 Usually 2 times a week for 3 months to be bulimia
Bulimia
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Laxatives
90 to 95% of cases are female
Too much food too quickly
Bathroom visits right after eating
Bulimia
What’s wrong with
this picture?
 Health Risks
Bulimia
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Maintain normal body weight
Dehydration causing kidney damage
Lack of vitamins and minerals
Stomach acid
 Inflames or causes tears in the throat
 Erodes teeth enamel
 Depression and suicide
 Vomiting can decrease heart rate which weakens the heart causing
failure
 Possible Causes
Bulimia
 Use food to feel better emotionally (relieve feelings of depression)
then purge in order to not gain weight
 Low self-esteem
 Troubled relationships
 Treatments
Bulimia
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Aware but unable to control behavior
Too ashamed to seek help
Offer private support
Encourage to seek help from mental-health expert
Psychotherapy, antidepressants, and nutritional counseling
Eating
Disorders
 Can someone with an eating disorder be an athlete (or compete in
sports)?
 Can a high level athlete have or develop an eating disorder?
 Some sports have certain weight restrictions causing athletes to
starve to make weight
Female Triad
 Female triad
 Lose weight to increase performance (eating disorder)
 Exercise so much and not eat enough that period is stopped
 Osteoporosis is a weakening of the bones due to the loss of bone
density and improper bone formation.
Binge Eating
Disorder
 Regularly have an uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of
food
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Don’t purge but binge
Can’t stop eating once full
Intention to eat 2 slices of bread and end up eating the whole loaf
Used for coping with stress, depression, or anxiety
 Health Risks
Binge Eating
Disorder
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Excess weight gain
Unhealthy diet
Diabetes
High blood pressure
Try extreme weight loss diets
 Hunger causes more bingeing
 Yo-yo effect
 Possible Causes
Binge Eating
Disorder
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Never properly learned how to deal with stress
Avoid dealing with emotions or stressful situations
Food provides temporary relief but can lead to guilt or depression
Family that tends to overeat
 Treatment
 Eat more slowly and deliberately
 Address underlying emotional problems
Binge Eating
or not?
Tell my why.
 Alexis is 15. At 5’4” tall and 125 pounds, she looks in the mirror and
sees a fat person. At dinner, she has started telling her parents,
“I’m not hungry – I’ll eat later.” But Alexis doesn’t eat later because
she has begun to starve herself in secret. For the past week, she’s
been eating about 400 calories per day.
Learning Log
 Justin is a wrestler – the best in his weight class. But he needs to
stay in that weight class. If he gains just 2 pounds, he’ll get
bumped up a class and have to wrestle larger guys and possibly
lose. Justin exercises obsessively. He also takes laxatives to lose
weight, and he has thrown up once or twice after friends dragged
him out for fast food. Justin even stops drinking water a day
before he gets weighed for a match.
 Emma is so fit and healthy, she doesn’t even get her period
anymore – or at least, that’s how Emma sees it. As a top high
school athlete, she trains all the time. Without the knowledge of
her parents or coach, she has also dropped her intake to 800
calories per day. If she goes over, she makes herself throw up.