Eating Disorders

Question 1

Eating disorder

Answer 1

A persistent disturbance in eating behaviour or other behaviours that alter food consumption or absorption and impair physical and psychological functioning
-when emotional aspects of food overpower the role of nourishment

Question 2

Anorexia nervosa

Answer 2

An eating disorder characterized by extreme restriction of energy intake, leading to a very low body weight, extreme fear of weight gain, and disturbance in the way that body weight is experienced

Question 3

Bulimia nervosa

Answer 3

An eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating following by inappropriate compensatory behaviours in order to prevent weight gain, such as purging behaviour like self-induced confiding or misuse of laxatives, diuretics or enemas. Fasting or excessive exercise can also be observed

Question 4

Binge eating

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Eating excessive amounts of food in a short time, often with a sense of loss of control and feelings of embarrassment, self-disgust, depression or guilt

Question 5

Binge-eating disorder

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An eating disorder characterized by the same binge eating observed in bulimia nervosa but there is no purging

Question 6

Other specified feeding or eating disorder or unspecified feeding or eating disorder

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An eating disorder that is similar to a fully characterized disorder, but does not include all the listed characteristics
Ex: all characteristics of anorexia except person has normal body weight

Question 7

Anorexia athletica

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Enacting in compulsive exercise to lose weight or maintain a very low body weight

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Bigorexia

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Obsession with being small and underdeveloped. Believe their muscles are inadequate even when they have a good muscle mass

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Body dimorphic disorder

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An obsession with a perceived defect in the persons body or appearance

Question 10

Insulin misuse

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Withholding insulin to cause weight loss or prevent weight gain

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Orthorexia nervosa

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Obsession with eating food considered to be healthy or beneficial. Focus on quality and not quantity

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Rumination syndrome

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Eating, swallowing and then regurgitating food back into the mouth where it is chews and swelled again

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Pica

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Eating disorder common during pregnancy where people eat clay, laundry starch and paint chips

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Female athlete triad

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Combination of disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis that occurs in some female athletes particularly those involved in sports in which low body weight and appearance are important
-disordered eating, Amenorrhea osteoporosis

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Amenorrhea

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Delayed onset of menstruation or the absence of menstruation of 3 or more consecutive cycles

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Osteoporosis

Answer 16

Bone disorder characterized by a decrease in bone mass, an increase in bone fragility, and an increase risk of fractures