PSYCH 2030 WEEK 9

Question 1

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 1

Eating disorder characterized by recurrent food refusal leading to dangerously low body weight

20% die

Question 2

Avoidant/Restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)

Answer 2

Type of eating disorder in which people limit their food intake not because they are concerned about weight or body shape but because they are not interested in eating or food or because they avoid certain sensory characteristics or consequences of food or eating

Question 3

Binge Eating Disorder

Answer 3

Pattern of eating involving distress-inducing binges not followed by purging behaviors

Question 4

Binges

Answer 4

Relatively brief episode of uncontrolled, excessive consumption, usually of food or alcohol

Question 5

Bulimia Nervosa

Answer 5

Eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive (binge) eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food (vomiting, laxative)

happens a lot to Young women in rich countries

Question 6

Purging Disorder

Answer 6

An eating disorder where people influence their weight by self-induced vomiting, using laxatives, diuretics (medicine make pee more), or other medications but do not show binge-eating disorder or other eating disorders

Question 7

Purging Techniques

Answer 7

In the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, the self-induced vomiting or laxative misuse used to compensate for excessive food ingestion

Question 8

food neophobia

Answer 8

the reluctance to eat, or the avoidance of, new foods

Question 9

Orthorexia Nervosa

Answer 9

an obsession with healthy eating