Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders

Anorexia Nervosa
1. Condition where you lose an appetite for food
  1. An emotional condition characterized by an obsessive desire to lose wieght
2. 42% of 3rd grade girls want to be thinner
  1. 81% of ten year old girls are afraid of becoming fat
3. Over half of teenage girls and a third of teenage boys have done
  1. fasting
  2. skipping meals
  3. vomiting
  4. taken laxatives
  5. smoking
4. Considered a mental dissorder
5. Starts with restriction
  1. low calorie diet
  2. excessive exercise
  3. Binge
    1. involves episodes of binge eating
6. side effects
  1. fatigue
  2. muscle weakness
  3. hair loss
Anorexia, Bulimia,and other eating dissorders
1. can kill
2. People can die as a direct result of extreme weight loss
Body Dysmorphic Dissorder or BDD
1. psychological illness
2. Centers around a person's obsession with physical flaws
3. minor or imagined
Obsessive-compulsive dissorder
1. unwanted repetetive thoughts
2. obsessions

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	Created by nkapps11 over 8 years ago