Eating Disorder
Myths vs. Facts
Warning Signs/Symptoms
Treatments of eating disorders
Statistics
100

A disorder in which a person severely restricts food & calorie intake.

What is anorexia?

100

Lacking the ability to perceive and adjust to reality.

What is ego deficiency ?

100

A brain structure that helps maintain various bodily functions, including eating and hunger.

What is the hypothalamus?

100

A treatment method that involves questioning and empathetic listening to help clients realize they have a problem and make changes in their lives.

What is motivational interviewing ?

100

A program that was made by psychologists to help people overcome eating disorders.

What is the body project?

200

This disorder is an obsession with proper or ‘healthful’ eating.

What is orthorexia

200

A state of sadness, low energy, low self-worth, etc.

What is depression ?

200

A region of the hypothalamus that produces hunger when activated.

What is the lateral hypothalamus ?

200

A therapy that aims to help clients counteract harmful behaviors and stop dysfunctional thoughts.

What is cognitive behavioral therapy?

200

A method of understanding your contradicting beliefs and changing your behavior to reduce that mental conflict.

What is cognitive dissonance theory?

300

A disorder in which a person eats excessively without trying to undo the effects of binging.

What is binge eating disorder?  

300

Dysfunctional brain circuits in regions associated with hunger.

What are biological factors ?

300

A region of the hypothalamus that depresses hunger when activated.

What is the ventromedial hypothalamus?

300

A therapy in which a group of people share their experiences and thoughts to work through difficult issues and disorders.

What is psychotherapy

300

A group of high school girls, committed to change how the media present female bodies.

What is the spark movement ?

400

An episode of extremely excessive eating.

What is binge?

400

Media portrayals of abnormally thin people leading to pressure to always be thinner.

What is societal pressures ?

400

The weight that a person is likely to maintain (controlled in part by the hypothalamus).

What is the weight set point?

400

Drug therapy to improve mood.

What is an antidepressants ?

400

 A method of identifying several kinds of risk factors that are thought to combine to help cause a disorder, with the goal of understand an individual’s risk for developing that disorder and avoiding harmful behaviors.

What is multidimensional risk analysis?

500

A disorder in which a person binges frequently, but then tries to undo those actions with forced purging to prevent gaining weight.

What is bulimia?

500

Modeling, dancing, acting, sports.

What are dangerous professions ?

500

A region in the cerebral cortex involved in anxiety related circuits.

What is the insula?

500

A method of slowly reintroducing calories to gain weight healthily while monitoring for adverse effects.

What is nutritional rehabilitation ?

500

A method of teaching young adults about nutrition so they understand that eating disorders are harmful to the body, and provide information on proper nutrition

What is nutrition education?

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