Description
Individuals with this disorder experience significant weight fluctuations
bulimia nervosa
What age group is affected most by bulimia and anorexia?
Teens
What eating disorder causes a person to feel satisfied when they purge?
Bulimia nervosa
What do binge-eaters do when they are alone?
gorge
What is the first step to recovering from an eating disorder?
admitting you have one
An eating disorder characterized by an obsessive dears to lose weight by not eating
anorexia nervosa
What are some health risk of anorexia?
Fatigue, stomach pains, osteopenia (below average bone marrow density), and liver damage.
What other mental illness is usually associated with eating disorders?
What are anorexic people obsessed with when eating?
Nutrition facts
What type of treatment has potential risks for the taker?
pharmaceutical medication
True or False? Taking laxatives and overexercising are warning signs/symptoms of an eating disorder.
True
What is the most common eating disorder in the US?
binge-eating disorder
What are psychological effects of binge eating?
Grief, disgust, and self-hatred about their eating behaviors are some of the many psychological effects of this eating disorder.
What eating disorder cause someone to take long bathroom trips?
bulimia
Recent studies showed that people with this type of disorder that underwent a 12-week self-guided program did not go back to their original eating habits.
binge eating
People with this disorder lose control of what they eat and the amount at which they consume food.
binge-eating disorder
Extreme cases of bulimia can cause the stomach to do what?
Rupture
Anorexia causes a person to constantly think...
that he/she is overweight.
Anorexic people tend to do a lot of this thinking they need to get rid of their caloric intake.
exercise
This is the most common type of therapy for virtually all types of eating disorders
psychotherapy (cognitive therapy)