Eating Disorders

What are eating disorders

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What is the definition of eating disorders

Any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits (such as anorexia nervous).

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What are the six most common eating disorders

Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa, Binge eating disorder, Pica, Rumination disorder and Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder  

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Which eating disorder has the highest death rate

Anorexia nervosa

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Eating disorders carry an increased risk for both?

suicide and medical complications

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what y=two things play important roles in the development of eating disorders?

Genes and environment

Symptoms

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What are the two types of symptoms for eating disorders

Physical and Emotional/behavioral

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Symptoms for Anorexia Nervosa 

• Dramatic weight loss
• Dresses in layers to hide weight loss or stay warm
• Preoccupation with weight, food, calories, fat grams, and dieting. Makes frequent comments about feeling “fat.’
• Resists or is unable to maintain a body weight appropriate for their age, height, and build
• Maintains an excessive, rigid exercise regime – despite weather, fatigue, illness, or injury

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what are the symptoms for Bulimia Nervosa?

• Evidence of binge eating, including disappearance of large amounts of food in short periods of time or lots of empty wrappers and containers indicating consumption of large amounts of food
• Evidence of purging behaviors, including frequent trips to the bathroom after meals, signs and/or smells of vomiting, presence of wrappers or packages of laxatives or diuretics
• Drinks excessive amounts of water or non-caloric beverages, and/or uses excessive amounts of mouthwash, mints, and gum
• Has calluses on the back of the hands and knuckles from self- induced vomiting
• Dental problems, such as enamel erosion, cavities, discoloration of teeth from vomiting, and tooth sensitivity 

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what are the symptoms for Compulsive Exercise?

• Exercise that significantly interferes with important activities, occurs at inappropriate times or in inappropriate settings, or occurs when the individual exercises despite injury or other medical complications
• Intense anxiety, depression and/or distress if unable to exercise
• Exercise takes place despite injury or fatigue

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What are the symptoms for Pica?

• The persistent eating, over a period of at least one month, of substances that are not food and do not provide nutritional value
• Typical substances ingested tend to vary with age and availability. They may include paper, soap, cloth, hair, string, wool, soil, chalk, talcum powder, paint, gum, metal, pebbles, charcoal, ash, clay, starch, or ice

Signs to eating disorders

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What are common signs for eating disorders

• Constant adherence to increasingly strict diets, regardless of weight
• Habitual trips to the bathroom immediately after eating
• Secretly bingeing on large amounts of food
• Hoarding large amounts of food
• Increase in consumption of laxatives, diuretics or diet pills
• Exercising compulsively, often several hours per day
• Using prescription stimulant medications (like Adderall) and/or illicit stimulant drugs (like cocaine) to suppress appetite

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What cause eating disorders

Environmental factor and genes

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When do eating disorders tend to develop

teens to early adulthood 

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Whats common for people with eating disorders

its common for people with eating disorders to hide their unhealthy behaviors

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What does food do for people with eating disorders

For some people matinee becomes a way to gain control over one aspect of their life 

Random Facts on Eating Disorders

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what are the 3 main eating disorders 

Anorexia Nervosa, fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, Bulimia Nervosa, the act of binge eating then purging or vomiting, and Binge Eating Disorder, eating until uncomfortably full in one sitting

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bout how many people struggle with eating disorders

approximately 24 million people in the U.S. struggle with an eating disorder

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What percentage of people with a eating disorder get treatment

about only 10% get treatment

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Which mental illness has the highest mortality rate

eating disorder

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what percent of teens admit to unhealthy methods 

50% of teen girls and nearly 33% of teen boys admit to using unhealthy methods to control their weight including smoking cigarettes, skipping meals, fasting, vomiting, or taking laxatives.