An emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
100
Having a BMI of 40 or above; also defined as 120 percent of ideal body weight for females and 124 percent for males.
What is Severe Obesity?
100
When a person attempts to get rid of unwanted calories, lose weight, "feel thin", or "feel empty" through the repeated, frequent use of laxatives.
What is Laxative Abuse?
100
A form of pica in which the person consumes excessive amounts of ice cubes or iced drinks. This condition is associated with the iron deficiency.
What is Pagophagia?
100
Lanugo, or downy hair growth, is common in this type of eating disorder.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
200
An emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
200
The desire to eat food whether or not there is hunger; a taste for particular foods and cravings in reaction to cues such as the sight, smell, or thought of food.
What is Appetite?
200
Causes pulp exposure, sensitivity to temperature, brittle, translucent teeth, dry mouth, and enlarged salivary glands.
What is Purging?
200
An abnormal craving for soil-like or earthy substances clay, chalk, soil etc. It is common among children and pregnant women.
What is Geophagy?
200
A distended stomach after a full meal causes the release of this hormone, which is associated with the feeling of satiation and the end of eating.
What is Cholecystokinin?
300
An eating disorder characterized by periods of extreme overeating, but not followed by purging behaviors, as in bulimia.
What is Binge-Eating Disorder?
300
Abnormal and potentially harmful eating behaviors that do not meet specific criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder.
What is Disordered Eating?
300
When the body is denied essential nutrients and is forced to slow down all of it's processes to conserve energy, resulting in serious medical consequences.
What is Self-starvation?
300
A disorder in which the person eats glass objects. This is usually used as a performance technique by performers
What is Hyalophagia?
300
The section of the hypothalamus that controls hunger.
What is the Lateral Hypothalamus?
400
A tendency or craving to eat substances other than normal food, occurring during childhood or pregnancy, or as a symptom of disease.
What is Pica?
400
Psychological illnesses that involve specific abnormal eating behaviors: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
What is Eating Disorders?
400
The most crucial treatment for eating disorders.
What is Prevention and Early Intervention?
400
A compulsive consumption of purified starch in excessive amounts. It is mostly seen among pregnant women.
What is Amylophagia?
400
The section of the hypothalamus that is responsible for satiation.
What is the Ventromedial Nucleus?
500
An eating disorder, characterized by a delayed circadian pattern of food intake.
What is Night Eating Syndrome?
500
A mental illness in which a person is excessively concerned about and preoccupied by a perceived defect in his or her body.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
500
The number of teens that struggle with eating disorders or disordered eating in the United States.
What is 1/2 Million Teens?
500
A condition characterized by eating hair, mostly one’s own. The long hair is first chewed without pulling them from the scalp and them swallowed. Sometimes the patient might also eat other people’s hair.
What is Trichophagia?
500
The nutrient that has the most powerful effect on satiety.