Eating Disorders

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Eating Disorders
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What is an eating disorder?

• An emotional disorder that manifests itself in an
  irrational craving for, or avoidance of, food.
  Eating disorders are often viewed as physical
  illnesses because of the obvious impact on
  appearance, but they effect the person mentally
  and emotionally and often weigh on his/her every
  thought.
• Three examples of eating disorders are
• Anorexia nervosa
• Bulimia nervosa
• Binge eating

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Why?

• The reasons that someone suffers from an eating
  disorder can vary for each person. Some common
  examples include
• Poor body image (not happy with looks)
• Depression
• Life altering events (death in family, divorce,
  etc.)
• Obsession with dieting
• What is beauty? Over the course of time, society
  has changed the idea of what beauty is and how
  people should look

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What is beauty?

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Media impact

• Media images are more than meets the eye. There
  are large crews of professional stylists that
  change the looks of the people we see to an
  unachievable status for normal people. Also, a
  lot of times they use airbrushing and photoshop
  to completely change the persons appearance.

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ED statistics

• 61 of college women show some sort of eating
  pathology

• Eating disorders have
• increased threefold in the last
• 50 years
• 10 of the population is
• afflicted with an eating
• disorder
• 90 of the cases are young
• women and adolescent girls

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Anorexia

• People suffering from anorexia have an intense
  fear of weight gain and as a result, starve
  themselves.
• May exhibit unusual behaviors with regards to
  food.
• Preoccupied with thoughts of food, and may show
  obsessive-compulsive tendencies related to food
• may adopt ritualistic behaviors at mealtime.
• may collect recipes or prepare elaborate meals
  for others.

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Anorexia signs, syptoms consequences

• Expresses body image concerns being too fat even
  though normal or thin unable to accept
  compliments constantly compares self to others
• Constantly talks about food
• Sudden weight loss, gain, or fluctuation in short
  time
• Lanugo hair (fine body hair)

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Bulimia

• People suffer from bulimia typically overeat
  (much like binge eaters) to avoid weight gain,
  the person uses inappropriate weight loss
  techniques such as undereating, over-exercising,
  or purging.
• Purging can take form as self-induced vomiting or
  laxative abuse.

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Bulimia signs, symptoms consequences

• Erosion of tooth enamel from the acid produced by
  vomiting
• Damage to the stomach from frequent vomiting
• Irregular heartbeat/Heart failure
• Electrolyte imbalances (loss of important
  minerals like potas- sium) that can lead to
  sudden death

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Binge eating

• People who binge eat will secretly eat unusually
  large servings of food in one sitting (sometimes
  more than the daily recommended amount for that
  person).
• Almost everyone overeats on occasion, such as
  having seconds or thirds of a holiday meal. But
  for some people, overeating crosses the line to
  binge-eating disorder and it becomes a regular
  occurrence, usually done in secret.

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Binge eating signs, symptoms consequences

• Eating unusually large amounts of food
• Eating even when you're full or not hungry
• Eating rapidly during binge episodes
• Eating until you're uncomfortably full
• Frequently dieting, possibly without weight loss

• Insomnia
• Obesity
• High blood pressure
• Type 2 diabetes
• High cholesterol
• Gallbladder disease and other digestive problems
• Heart disease
• Some types of cancer

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How are they overcome?

• Recovery from an eating disorder almost always
  requires professional help from a doctor,
  psychologist or both. Remember, eating disorders
  affect the mind and body. Without help, eating
  disorders can lead to a persons death!
• Friends and family can help support this recovery
  by reminding the person that it is not his/her
  fault and that they are not alone. Do not blame
  the person for the eating disorder and make sure
  you maintain a positive attitude when helping
  someone overcome an eating disorder.