Medical & Psychological
Men
Causes
Fat Phobic
Factors
100
Absence of at least three consecutive periods.
What is Amenorrhea?
100
This popular children's doll has increased in muscle mass and overall structure from 1960 to 2000.
What is GI Joe?
100
Eating disorders may be linked to dysfunction of the glands that produce hormones that regulate hunger.
What are neuroendocrine factors?
100
Mathematical formula whose purpose is to put people of different heights and weights on a single linear scale.
What is the Body Mass Index (BMI).
100
This is found to be lower in people with eating disorders and is often thought to be the "deadly cocktail" when paired with perfectionism.
What is self-esteem?
200
When one perceives themselves as being heavier or smaller than they are.
What is a distorted body image?
200
This is the most popular plastic surgery among men.
What is Botox?
200
The person does not have the ability to accurately identify internal states of feeling.
What is a lack of internal awareness?
200
Some research facts are hidden and/or distorted.
What is biased medical research?
200
Negative feelings about the body where the person unrealistically sees one's body as far from ideal.
What is body dissatisfaction?
300
Recurrent and frequent episodes of binge eating, usually followed by purging and abuse of diuretics and/or laxatives.
What is Bulimia?
300
The body is increasingly being objectified and sexualized in popular print ads.
What is an objectified body?
300
Binge eaters may have biological urges that cause them to uncontrollably crave foods; anorexics have addiction to some endorphin type chemical released by the body when starving is paired with exercise.
What is a chemical addiction?
300
Sports with over-emphasis or focus on external appearance have a high incidence of eating disorders.
What are appearance focuses?
300
Eating disorders are more often found in the upper/middle classes.
What are cross-cultural differences?
400
Characterized by an abnormal fear of becoming obese, a distorted self-image, a persistent unwillingness to eat, and a severe weight loss.
What is Anorexia?
400
Tend not to conform to cultural expectations for masculinity.
What are men with anorexia?
400
Anorexia is thought to be another form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
What are neurochemical causes?
400
Celebrity Fit Club, The Biggest Looser, The Swan, Flab to Fab, I Want to be a High School Cheerleader, Made, Ruby
What are television shows obsessed with weight loss?
400
Cultures place more importance on looks for women than men.
What are gender differences?
500
Isolated, disappears for long periods of time throughout the day, unexplained food disappearance, depression, mood swings, irritability, large amounts of empty food packages in the trash or hidden, gains weight without appearing to eat more.
What are the signs and symptoms of binge eating?
500
70-83% of men have it.
What is binge eating disorder?
500
Twin studies, family patterns, medical studies.
What are the biological explanation studies?
500
In 2003 the director of the CDC made a speech claiming that the health impact of obesity would be worse than the influenza epidemic or the black plague.
What is the exaggerated "obesity scare"?
500
Has a pervasive unrealistic idealization of very slim and unachievable bodies.
What is the media?
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