Body Image, Eating Disorders, and FAD diets

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Body Image,Eating Disorders,and FAD diets
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What is Body Image?

• Body Image is how you see and feel about your
  appearance AND how comfortable you are with your
  body

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What defines Body Image?

• CULTURE and SOCIETY!
• Clothing models and media stars set a standard
  for attractiveness and acceptability.
• GET THIS Models represent less than 1 percent of
  the population AND are heavily airbrushed!

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What does it mean to have a healthy body image?

• Listen to what your body tells you- eat when you
  need to, stop when youre full
• Appreciate and care for your body
• Have realistic expectations about your size based
  on your familys genes
• Realize your weight and body shape can change
  frequently and rapidly in teens

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Unhealthy Role Models
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Healthy Body Image Role Models
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Eating Disorders

• Eating disorders are conditions that involve
  UNHEALTHY concern about body weight and shape
• Leads to controlling weight in unhealthy means.
• THOUSANDS of people die each year from
  complications related to eating disorders

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Common Eating Disorders

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Bingeing or binge eating

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Are you at RISK for developing an EATING DISORDER?

• Prefer to eat alone?
• Thinking about food often?
• Overly critical about body size, shape?
• Eating a lot of diet foods?
• Weighing yourself often/every day?

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Anorexia Nervosa

• Anorexia Nervosa is Self-starvation
• Leads to a distorted body image (thinking one is
  overweight when underweight)
• Someone with anorexia may consume only a few
  hundred calories PER DAY
• Their bodies begin feeding on ITSELF as a source
  for energy

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Anorexia can lead to

• Intense fear of weight gain
• Loss of menstrual cycle
• Hair loss on head
• Depression and anxiety
• Low bone density
• Organ failure
• Heart failure
• DEATH

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Bulimia Nervosa

• Involves frequent episodes of binge eating and
  purging
• Bingeing involves consuming large quantities of
  food at one time
• Purging food through vomiting or laxatives,
  fasting, or over exercising

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Bulimia can lead to

• Unhealthy weight loss
• Blood shot eyes
• Sore throat
• Severe dehydration
• Irregular menstrual periods
• Depression and mood swings
• Hair loss
• Decay on tooth enamel and dental problems

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Binge Eating

• Involves frequent binge eating but no purging
• Accompanied by feelings of guilt, shame, and loss
  of control after binge session
• A THIRD of people with weight problems suffer
  from binge eating disorders
• Most binge eaters are overweight or obese!

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DONT

• Look to Fad diets! A Fad Diet is a diet that
  requires major changes in your eating habits and
  promises quick results
• Fad Diets or programs do NOT help with long term
  weight results!
• Remember FAD diets are BAD diets!

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A FAD DIET.

• Suggests limiting your diet and not including
  fruits, grains, vegetables, etc.
• Diet pills- unhealthy means of weight loss
  through a pill that advertises weight loss
  without changing diet or exercise patterns
• Surgery- changing structure of digestive tract,
  bypassing parts of the stomach- very risky-
  surgeries can lead to death!
• Low Carbohydrate Diets- causes liver problems and
  leads to lack of nutrients

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Whats the best advice?

• The best way to manage weight
• Eat a balanced diet that includes food from ALL
  food groups
• As a teen, stay under 2,500 calories
• As you get older, stay around 2,000
• Get plenty of EXERCISE and SLEEP

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Help Available

• Medical and psychological therapy
• Family counseling
• Nutritional counseling
• ASK A TEACHER, FAMILY MEMBER, OR A TRUSTED ADULT!