Download What is an eating disorder?

Aim: What is an eating
disorder?
Do Now: Make a list of as many words
as you can think of that relate to the
term “eating disorder”.
Defining Eating Disorders
• Abnormal food intake
stemming from an unhealthy
relationship with food related
to addiction.
• Often has a direct correlation
with depression.
Is it any wonder
we have distorted
body images?
• Average height and weight of a model 5’9” is 110lbs
• Average height and weight of an American woman is
5’4” and 142lbs
• Percentage of women who diet is 80%
• Percentage of men who diet is 25%
• 50% of nine year old girls have already dieted
What are underlying causes of
eating disorders?
Underlying Causes for Eating
Disorders
Genetic
Eating Disorder
Psychological
Social
• Trigger:
• A specific event, situation or comment
that a person who is at risk is exposed to
Those are underlying causes.
What pulls the trigger?
Eating
Disorder
Anorexics
body type is a range.
may lose 25-50% of body weight
– as few as several hundred calories consumed in a
day; could be less.
– obsessive calorie counting and restriction.
– food is the enemy
– damage to heart, kidney, and reproductive system
– thyroid function and immune response slowed
Anorexics
• Symptoms: Lanugo (soft body hair), brittle hair
and nails, sunken eyes, loss of menstrual cycle,
leg cramps, depression.
• Usually a pleaser (always trying to please
others)- avoids sexual relationships.
• Death most often occurs from inability to absorb
nutrients.
• High risk for suicide/difficult to treat because of
underlying physiological causes.
Causes: Underlying psychological or
genetic influences that can put a
person at risk for an eating disorder.
What do they include?
Does media give us a false sense
of how we should look and how we
feel about our bodies?
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If we are all exposed to media
and photo shopped images, why
don’t we all have eating
disorders?
Bulimia Nervosa
• Individual admits to problem-experiences
embarrassment.
• Body type- usually average or above average.
• Consumes large amounts of food in short period of time
• Purging (eliminates food) through use of laxatives,
induced vomiting, diuretics or intense exercise
• Fear of being caught.
• Symptoms-loss of hair, raspy voice, bruised fingers,
sores in corners of mouth, depression
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Bulimia
• Personal relationships tend to be short term
• Menstrual cycle may be present, irregular or absent
• Individual may be involved in drugs or alcohol abuse.
• Death occurs from electrolyte imbalance, hemorrhaging
(stomach bleeding from force of vomiting)
• High risk for hospitalization.
Binge Eating Disorder
Compulsive Overeating
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• Body type –often normal.
• Often overlooked as an eating disorder
• Individual frequently experiences strong feelings of
guilt from weight gain.
• Emphasis on being liked
• Secret eating
• Might go through cycles of weight loss followed by
weight gain (yo yo dieting)
• Menstrual cycle may be present, absent or irregular
• Death from heart disease, diabetes, stroke
• High risk for suicide
Eating Disorders
• 8 million people suffer from eating
disorders
• Of these 8 million 20% will die
• Half of these deaths will be suicide related
What is the difference between
Bulimia and Compulsive
Overeating?
YouTube - NBC Action News Compulsive Overeating
Aim: How do we recognize eating
disorders and what can we do to
help ourselves or a friend?
•As a group read the scenario assigned to your group
•Every group member should fill in the worksheet
•Create an I-statement as an example of how you might confront
the character in your scenario
Distorted body image
• symptoms: _____________(soft body hair), brittle
hair and nails, sunken eyes, loss of menstrual cycle,
leg cramps, depression
• usually a ________________(always trying to please
others)-avoids sexual relationships
• death most often occurs from __________________
• high risk for suicide/ difficult to treat because of
____________________