Transcript Eating Disorders

• 8,000,000 or more people in the U.S. have an
eating disorder!
• 90% are women
• Variety of backgrounds
• Usually start in or during the teen years
• Extreme or harmful eating behavior that can cause serious
illness or even death
• Obsession with food and weight that can harm a person’s
physical and psychological well-being
Main Types:
• Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia
• Overeating or Binge Eating
• Not known exactly!
• Pressure
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Media
Peers
Models
Appearance; start diet
• Stress
• Control
• Chemical
• Defect in chemical messengers in the brain
• Disorder in which the irrational fear of becoming obese results in
severe weight lost from self-imposed starvation
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Low calorie intake
Obsession with exercise
Emotional problems
Unnatural interest in food
Distorted body image
Denial of eating problem
• Consequences: loss of bone density, low body temp, slowed
metabolism, heart problems, and reduction of organ size
• Disorder in which some form of purging or clearing of the
digestive tract follows cycles of overeating
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Fast/follows strict diet then binges
After eating causes vomiting
Distorted body image
Similar to Anorexia
• Consequences: dehydration, kidney damage, irregular
heartbeat, destroys tooth enamel, causes tooth decay, damages
tissue of stomach, esophagus and mouth