Midterm Flashcards
Age of when eating disorders occur
17 yrs of age
Perfectionist behavior
Low self-esteem
Preoccupation with becoming thin
Dieting practices such as skipping meals
Too much concern for body weight and appearance
Participation in sports that emphasize thinness, such as figure skating, gymnastics, rowing
Risk factors for anorexia
Unsuccessful dieters Strong need for social approval Conflict avoidance Inability to identify and assert personal needs Inadequate coping skills High distress levels Parental overprotectiveness
Risk factors of bulimia nervosa
Harmful dieting practices, such as avoidance of certain foods or restricting food intake to a low amount Low self-esteem Problems with assertiveness Perfectionism High anxiety levels All-or-nothing thinking Mood swings
Binge eating disorder risk factors
Dieting at an early age
Unsupervised dieting
Reaching menarche too soon emotionally
Choosing a sport to participate in before the body matures, or choosing a sport incompatible with body type
Female athlete triad risk factors
Being overweight as a child
Early history of dieting practices
Participation in a sport that demands thinness
Having a job or profession that demands thinness (e.g., models, actors)
Muscle dysmorphia risk factors
Exercising beating requirements for good health
Having a fanatical obsession about weight and diet
Missing work and school and withdrawing from relationships to exercise
Rarely satisfied w athletic achievement
Anorexia athletica risk factors
Frequent comparison w others
Repeated checking of specific body parts in mirror
Wearing excessive clothing to camouflage perceived flaw
Body dysmorphic disorder risk factors
A gradual increase in weight due to decreasing metabolism and lifestyle changes.
Creeping obesity
the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available.
Metabolism
Goes before a fall. It is thinking you are the center of the world. Become upset and impatient
Pride
To resent someone else’s good fortune so much that you are tempted to destroy it or steal it from them.
Envy
You allow contempt for another to rule over you.
Anger
Laziness in people may be part of why they dream of fitness but don’t get off the couch to do anything about it. Although a “couch potato” says they want to be fit, his lack of action indicates he doesn’t really want anything.
Lazy and apathy
Makes people want the best fitness equipment and finest fitness clubs to produce the finest body around, and they’ll do anything to get it. If you count on money and material things you will fail.
Greed and materialism
Glutton id captive to good because her thoughts are consumed by wanting more food or less food.
Overindulgence (gluttony)
People who let their bodies direct them into an obsession to continually satisfy cravings for pleasure become captives of a vicious cycle of wanting more. That behavior ultimately damages your body, holds you in prison of the things you crave and, leaves you dissatisfied and searching for what you are missing.
Misguided or sinful desire
give and receive love to feel healing
Opp of pride
experience peace that’s gives the body life
Instead of envy
experience healing through gentle, irrational forgiveness, as God forgave you
Instead of anger
