Key terms
What is the definition of diabetes?
A disease that is caused by a decreased production or ability to use insulin.
What object will help detrmine if your over or under weight by using standerized charts and lists to detirmine average weight?
What is a height-weight table.
This disorder's main symptom is eating large amounts of food.
What is a binge eating disorder
The name of an unhealthy diet.
What is a fad diet?
What is the definition of the key term laxative?
A drug or food that is taken to help empty bowles.
What type of measurment helps detrmine if your over or under weight by squeezing the skin and the tissue together on the back of the arm?
What is the body fat measurement.
This disorder's main symptom is a refusal to maintain body weight within 15% of normal weight.
What is anorexia nervosa?
A diet is a change to your way of life.
What is a healthy diet?
What is the definition of the key term stamina?
Physical or mental endurance.
What is one type of eating disorder that refuses the food to maintain body weight?
This disorder's main symptom is eating large amounts of food within a short period and then forcing themselves to vomit.
What is bulimia nervosa?
What is considered a safe weight loss per week?
1 to 2 pounds per week
What is the definition of the key term diuretic?
A substance that increases urination.
There are multiple effects when being over or underweight; what are three types of eating disorders that can happen.
Anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder.
This type of eating disorder's main symptoms includes: eating large amounts of food in a short amount of time, secrecy around their eating, and alternating between overeating and fasting.
What is binge eating?
What is the definition of the key term purging?
Removing food from the body by vomiting or taking laxatives.