Eating Disorder and Other Nutrition Issues Flashcards
However, for some individuals, eating is not that simple. They engage in unhealthy practices that include starvation, binge eating, self-induced vomiting, and eating non-food substance such as clay. These are all symptoms of what is commonly referred to as?
Disordered Eating
We eat because we crave the taste of the food, we want to be healthier or we eat simply because we are?
Hungry
Where people intentionally
starve themselves. They have a normal appetite but refuse to eat for fear of gaining weight?
Anorexia Nervosa
4 Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Orthorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder
Leads to binge-eating, mostly two or three times a week, followed by purging through forced
vomiting, prolonged fasting, vigorous exercise, or abuse of
laxatives and enemas?
Bulimia Nervosa
Healthy eating taken to the
extreme.
Orthorexia Nervosa
He introduced the term Orthorexia Nervosa.
Dr. Steven Bratman of Colorado, USA in 2001.
This is a condition wherein
a person will eat large amounts of food over a short period of
time (2 hours in between) with a total lack of control over the
situation?
Binge Eating Disorder
See themselves as being overweight even if everyone else sees them as shockingly thin (this is negative body image)
Anorexia Nervosa
a. Swollen glands in the neck and face
b. Heartburn, bloating, indigestion, constipation, and irregular periods.
c. Sore throat because of the constant vomiting
Bulimia Nervosa
a. Obsessed with food guides, books, or anything else that will lead to
improved food quality;
b. Follow strict rules; and
c. If the patient feels that he is slipping up, he punishes himself by
fasting for days or go through extreme exercising.
Orthorexia Nervosa
a. Fatigue, sleeplessness
b. Bloating and constipation
c. Low self-esteem
d. Evidence of hiding food, empty food containers
Binge Eating Disorder
