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Description of Health Issue
Current Trends / Health Risks
Psychological Effects
Behavioral Effects
Treatment / Resources
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An eating disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by not eating

Anorexia

100

This is the most common eating disorder in the US

Binge-eating disorder

100

When someone eats dirt or things with no nutritional value

Pica

100

People with this disorder often take long trips to the bathroom. The length of time can depend on the amount of food consumed.

Bulimia

100
Usually the first step to recovering from an eating disorder is what
What is admitting you have one
200

People with this disorder lose control of what they eat and the amount at which they consume food.

Binge-eating disorder

200

Bulima and anorexia mostly affect this age group

Teens

200

Grief, disgust, and self-hatred about their eating behaviors are some of the many psychological effects of this eating disorder.

Binge eating

200

Isolation from what kinds of people begins to happen when dealing with disorder.

friends and family

200
Recent studies showed that people with this type of disorder that underwent a 12-week self-guided program did not go back to their original eating habits.
What is binge eating
300

Individuals with this disorder experience significant weight fluctuations.

Bulimia

300

Health risks of this eating disorder include fatigue, stomach pains, osteopenia (below average bone marrow density), and liver damage.

Anorexia

300

Bulimic people feel this when they purge.

guilty or shameful

300

Binge eaters usually eat normally around others and do this when alone.

Gorging

300
Severe cases of eating disorders need to be treated here.
What are hospitals
400

Taking laxatives, over exercising, throwing up are warning signs of? 

All eating disorders

400

Extreme cases of bulimia cause the stomach to do this.

Rupture

400
Individuals with this type of eating disorder develop addictions to cope with their problem
What is bulimia
400
Anorexic people tend to do a lot of this thinking they need to get rid of their caloric intake.
What is exercise
400
When using this type of treatment there are potential risks for the taker.
What is pharmaceutical medication
500

People with anorexia have high levels of this type of hunger horomone in their blood

Ghrelin

500

Every ______ minutes a person dies as a direct result of an eating disorder

62

500
People with eating disorders are also usually coupled with this type of mental health disorder.
What is depression
500
Anorexic people are obsessed with this when eating.
What are nutrition facts (calories, fats, etc.)
500
This is the most common type of therapy for virtually all types of eating disorders
What is psychotherapy (cognitive therapy)