Eating Disorders

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Eating Disorders

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Obesity

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Why Eating Disorders?

• Adolescents desire to appear perfect to others
• Popular culture and media stress and exploit
  thinness
• Teens have an altered body perception of
  themselves
• Adolescents suffering from depression may resort
  to for compensation
• May develop in response to coping with outside
  factors (i.e. Parents divorce)

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Eating Disorders- DEFINED

• Anorexia Nervosa- purposeful starvation or lack
  of necessary caloric intake
• Bulimia Nervosa- intentional binging on large
  amounts of food, usually of high caloric value,
  and then purging the use of laxatives is
  prevalent
• Obesity- 10 overweight than what is recommended
  for the height and body type caused by genetic,
  biological, behavioral, and cultural factors

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Anorexia Nervosa- SYMPTOMS and PHYSICAL EFFECTS
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Anorexia Nervosa- WHAT THEY ARE FEELING

• Desire perfectionism
• Denial of problem
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Thoughts of suicide
• Intense fear of food and weight gain
• Controlling food gives them sense of power

• High need for control
• Poor self-esteem
• Compliance
• Feelings of guilt about eating
• Inflexibility in thought and behavior

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Bulimia Nervosa- SYMPTOMS and PHYSICAL EFFECTS
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Bulimia Nervosa- WHAT THEY ARE FEELING

• Low self-esteem
• Feeling out of control
• Depression
• Suicidal thoughts/feelings
• Anxiety
• High need for approval
• Feelings of worthlessness and guilt
• Over concern with weight and body image

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Anorexia Nervosa- STATISTICS

• Approximately 0.5-1.0 are affected in the
  general population
• Most are among high school and college
  populations
• 90 are female
• 10-20 of anorexics die from illness
• Prevalence of anorexia in children is higher in
  boys than in girls

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Bulimia Nervosa- STATISTICS

• Estimated to be ten times more prevalent in
  females than in males
• 2 of all adolescent and young adult females
• Bulimics usually remain within 5 of their normal
  body weight

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Anorexia and Bulimia- SIMILARITIES

• White, middle-upper class females
• Perfectionists
• High achievers
• Academically and/or vocationally successful
• Great need to please others
• Obsessed with food and/or calories

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Something to remember

• It is understood in the medical professional
  community that not all eating problems classify
  as eating disorders. Nearly 1/6 of high school
  boys and 1/3 of high school boys show some signs
  of an eating disorder. These unhealthy eating
  habits need to be treated before an eating
  disorder becomes full-blown.

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Obesity- SYMPTOMS

• Poor eating habits
• Lack of exercise
• Family history of obesity
• Low self-esteem
• Depression
• Family and peer problems
• Stressful life events or changes
• Overeating or binging

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Obesity- STATISTICS

• A number of health-related issues can result,
  inlcuding heart disease, high blood pressure,
  diabetes, breathing problems, and trouble
  sleeping
• Obesity is a disease that is increasing
  incredibly in prominence
• Between 16 and 33 of children and adolescents
  are obesity

• A child who is obese between the ages of 10 and
  13 has an 80 chance of becoming obese as an
  adult
• When one parent is obese, the children have a 50
  chance of becoming obese
• When both parents are obese, the children have an
  80 chance of becoming obese

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What can teachers do?

• Teachers can help students with low self-esteem
  by finding out what it is that the students are
  best at and help them showcase those abilities.
• Teachers can talk to the counselors and/or other
  teachers about student behavior to look for
  symptoms and warning signs.
• Teachers can encourage for students to get
  involved in various clubs and/or extracurricular
  activities to increase their self-worth.
• OR Teachers can advise students to not take on
  too much in their lives, to use discretion in the
  activities in which they choose to participate.

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What can teachers do contd?

• Teachers can have a guest speaker come in and
  talk about eating disorders. This might
  instigate classroom discussion or friends of the
  victim taking action.
• Teachers can consult the principal on scheduling
  a conference with the students parents.
• Teachers can call parents, if they feel
  comfortable and confident in doing so. Parents
  should only be called when the situation has
  escalated to a dangerous level, when the
  students health is in jeopardy.
• Overall, each situation must be a case-by-case
  basis.

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Resources

• Butler County Children Services Board
• http//www.butlercountyohio.org/csb/overview.html
• National Eating Disorders Association
• http//www.edap.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID337
• Self-Help Magazine Eating Disorders
• http//www.selfhelpmagazine.com/articles/eating/in
  dex.html

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Bibliography

• http//inside.bard.edu/academic/specialproj/darlin
  g/adprob.htm
• http//plaza.ufl.edu/ingrid/Eating_Disorders.htm
• http//www.drgreene.com/21_343.html
• http//www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/eating.
  htm
• http//www.familydoctor.org/277.xml