Disordered eating Flashcards
What kind of personality traits are associated with eating disorders?
Achievement driven/goal driven and perfectionism - all vital to athletic success - therefore puts athletes at high risk of developing disorder.
Reference showing personality traits and eating disorders together?
Cassin and von Ransom (2005):
Anorexia and bulimia consistently characterized by personality traits such as perfectionism.
What proves eating disorders are more prevalent in females than males?
Powers and Dick (1999):
In a questionnaire found that 1% of females had eating disorders and 12% of females had sub clinical ones.
Compared to males that had 0% clinical and 0.01% subclinical.
Females were also more likely to be anorexic than males.
What did Haase et al. (2002) find about eating disorders?
Negative perfectionism (wanting to achieve something in order to avoid consequences) was heavily linked with social physique anxiety and thus eating disorders in female athletes.
What else is an area of concern for athletes with regard to eating disorders and give an example of a scenario.
The timings of meals.
For example a young athlete at school may have training in the early morning, and then training again in the evening, which makes it difficult to intake the calories they need for their training.
How do you prepare for difficult schedules to eat well?
Plan meals in advance so you have it ready to eat.
Portable meals so they can be eaten quickly anywhere they want.
Team meals - if part of training involves the team eating together, coaches will know their players are eating adequately. Players then don’t have to cook for themselves as much, relieving some of the burden.
Positive food reinforcement is important.
Players can create a food log to keep track of their daily intake. Then coaches will be able to recognise if an athlete has disordered eating problem and adjustments can be made.
Summary points for preventing disordered eating?
Ensure adequate energy intake.
Consider RNI for protein, iron, calcium as minimum.
Period is most likely time ED can happen due to hormonal changes - so preparing for that.
Consider questionnaires and nutritional advice if needed.
Round up meal timing points.
