Definitions
A cycle of eating large quantities of food.
What is bingeing?
Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok, Youtube, magazines, TV, and the radio
What is social media?
Eating disorders are a type of mental illness.
True
Disappearing after meals, usually to the bathroom, taking laxatives, discolored teeth, and sore throat.
What are the symptoms of purging?
This is a direct contributor to 65% of those with eating disorders.
What is bullying?
Vomiting, taking laxatives or diuretics, fasting, or exercising excessively.
What is purging?
As many as 65% of people with eating disorders said that _______ contributed to this condition. People will mostly judge you for your body and face but not who you are on the inside and your personality
What is bullying (or more specifically, cyberbullying)?
Bulimia isn't life-threatening.
False
Severely restricting food intake
Excessive exercise
What are the symptoms of anorexia?
Inability to differentiate between the realities an actual mirror shows and the perceived reality of celebrities and sports stars.
Where does negative body image come from?
The mental representation an individual creates of themselves, but it may or may not have any correlation to how they truly look like.
What is body image?
Obsessive-compulsive personality traits can make it easier to stick to strict diets, extreme perfectionism can cause people to strive to be thinner, and anxiety might cause one to engage in restrictive eating as a coping mechanism
What are the psychological risk factors of eating disorders?
Eating disorders are only caused by food.
False. Eating disorders are caused by a variety of things, such as environmental situations and self-image issues.
Using laxatives after eating without prescription or recommendation.
Forcing yourself to vomit or exercise after eating to keep you from gaining weight.
What are the symptoms of bulimia?
Avoid comments on appearance/weight and simplistic solutions. Encourage them to seek professional help.
What are some methods of helping someone with an eating disorder?
An eating disorder characterized by an obsession with reducing or maintaining low body weight through any means necessary
What is anorexia?
List three mental risk factors.
What is perfectionism, body image, behavioral inflexibility, weight stigma, bullying, stereotypes, acculturation? (Any 3 will work)
Only underweight people or girls can have eating disorders.
False. Anyone can have eating disorders.
Eating much more rapidly than normal, eating large amounts without feeling hungry, and eating until uncomfortably full.
What are the symptoms of binge eating?
List three complications that can result from binge-eating.
What are obesity, social isolation, and medical complications?
People are caught in a cycle of bingeing, and then trying to compensate for that overeating by vomiting, taking laxatives or diuretics, fasting, or exercising excessively.
What is bulimia?
List three environmental factors that can contribute to eating disorders.
What are the effects of social media, family, beauty standards, social stigmas, and friends?
People with eating disorders are vain and arrogant
False. Eating disorders are because people are finding a way to deal with their feelings and problems.
Constantly comparing and watching one’s body, weight, fluctuation in weight, and frequent comments about weight, losing weight, being fat, etc.
What are the symptoms of a distorted body image?
List three incinerators that someone could have an eating disorder.
What is binging, purging, restricting food consumption, and avoiding social functions?