Week 8: Eating Disorders

Question 0

What is anorexia nervosa

Answer 0

Significant weight loss and potentially fatal medical complications resulting from excessive dieting
Consider themselves to be fat no matter what their actual size
Strive for perfection

Question 1

What are eating disorders

Answer 1

A group of disorders characterised by one of two abnormal eating habits hat involve insufficient or excessive eating, detrimental of an individual’s physical and mental health

Question 2

Diagnostic criteria for anorexia

Answer 2

Refusal to maintain body weight at or above minimum normal body weight for age and height
Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat even though underweight
Dissatisfaction with body weight or shape, undue influence of body weight and self evaluation and denial of seriousness of current low weight
Absence of at least 3 menstrual cycles

Question 3

What is bulimia

Answer 3

Normal weight but binge and purge to lose weight
Mental disorder, cycle of dieting, nine eating then nothing to try and lose weight
Purge: vomit, excess laxative use
Do realise they have a problem, more likely to seek help

Question 4

Diagnostic criteria for bulimia

Answer 4

A. Recurrent episodes of binge eating
1. Eating large amounts of food, in discrete periods within any 2 hours
2. Sense of lack of control during eating episode. Recurrent inappropriate compensate behaviour (overuse laxatives, vomiting, excessive exercise)
C. Above-occur at least twice a week for 3 months, self evaluation influenced by body shape and weight
E. Disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of anorexia

Question 5

BMI
Calculations
Classifications

Answer 5

Height (1.63) squared (=2.65)
Weight divide by height squared
(55/2.65= 20.75)

25 overweight
>30 obese