Eating Disorders and Stress

Question 1

What are unhealthy eating cues?

Answer 1

social cues
situational cues
negative thoughts
negatvie feelings

Question 2

What social cues happen with eating?

Answer 2

• primary activity
• wanting to fit into social settings
• peer pressure

Question 3

What are some situational cues?

Answer 3

• seeking comfort during crisis
• avoiding negative feeligns
  -reward

Question 4

What are some negative thoughts and feelings?

Answer 4

cycle of automatic eating?
1. unpleasant situation
2. automatic negative thoughts
3. negative feelings
4. eat our emotions

Question 5

What are risks factors for eating disorders?

Answer 5

1. gender
2. race
3. childhood eating
4. sexual abuse
5. negative body image

Question 6

What are the symptoms of anorexia?

Answer 6

1. Rapid weight loss
2. preoccupation with food and calories
3. skipping meals
4. excessive exercise

Question 7

What are imporant features of anorexia nervosa?

Answer 7

a refusal to maintain a minimal body weight, fear of gaining weight

Question 8

Who does anorexia nervosa affect and when in life?

Answer 8

mainly adolescent women, happens in early-middle teens, because they don’t know how to cope with stress

Question 9

What are two ways that people with anorexia control their calorie intake?

Answer 9

1. restricted type of anorexia
2. binge eating / purging

Question 10

How does stress affect anorexia nervosa?

Answer 10

dysregulation in the HPA axis, difficulty in establishing whether the HPA axis abnormalities are related to starvation and weight loss or to AN itself.

Question 11

What are the symptoms of bulimia nervosa?

Answer 11

1. fear of loss of control over eating
2. excessive concern with body shape and weigh
3. consuming large amounts of food at one time

Question 12

What are the main features?

Answer 12

recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by periods of purging or fasting

Question 13

Who does bulimia affect and when in life?

Answer 13

ten times more females than males, happens in late adolescence or early adulthood

Question 14

What did the study of Levine et al. demsonstrate?

Answer 14

that anyone under stress will have a tendency to binge

Question 15

What are the symptoms of bigne eating?

Answer 15

1. fear of loss of control over eating
2. bingeing (reoccuring episodes)
3. feelings of disgust
4. poor self esteem

Question 16

When does binge eating start and who does it affect?

Answer 16

majority of sufferers are women, but not much: 3:2, during late adolescence and early adulthood

Question 17

Why is binge eating related to stress?

Answer 17

binge eating serves as an escape from aversive self-awarness or an attempt to elevate mood

Question 18

What does stress have to do with obesity?

Answer 18

obese women show alterations in the HPA axis, increased cortisol level can produce insulin resistance and promote visceral fat accumulation

Question 19

What is coping?

Answer 19

thoughts and behaviours an individual uses to manage, tolerate or reduce interal or external demands

Question 19

What are all eating disorders a consequence to?

Answer 19

consequence of stress combination with social presssure and an individuals inability to cope