HEALTH:

Eating disorders

What is an eatingdisorder?

Eating disorders are conditionsdefined by anormal eating habits, inculde extreme emotions, attitude, and behavioursurrounding weigth and foodissues, they are serious emotionaland physical problems.

TYPES OF EATING DISORDERS AND THEIR SYMPTOMS

Anorexia nervosa:

People with anorexia nervosa often also limit or restrict other parts of their lives besides food, including relationships, social activities, or pleasure.They have intense fearof weigth gain and inability to appreciatethe severity of thesituation.

Bulimia Nervosa:

Frequent episodes of consuming very largeamount of food but without behaviors to prevent weigth gain, such as self introducedvomiting

A feeling of being out of control during thebinge-eating episodes

If left untreated, bulimia nervosa can lead to serious and even life-threatening problems, such as depression, anxiety disorders, heart damage, kidny, injury to all parts of the digestive system, and severe dental damage.

Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders:

• Examples of OSFED Include:• Atypical anorexia nervosa (weight is not below

normal)• Bulimia nervosa (with less frequent behaviors)• Binge-eating disorder (with less frequent

occurrences)• Purging disorder (purging without binge eating)• Night eating syndrome (excessive nighttime

food consumption)

Obesity:

Obesity is one of our nation's most critical health problems.Appropriate treatment not only improves individuals' quality of life, it can save lives.

Facts of eating disorders

• 0% of women who answered a People magazine survey responded that images of women on television and in the movies make them feel insecure.

• In one study, three out of four women stated that they were overweight although only one out of four actually were.

• The dieting industry is the only business in the world that has a 98% failure rate.

• One half of 4th grade8 girls are on a diet.• A study found that adolescent girls were more fearful of

gaining weight than getting cancer, nuclear war or losing their parents.

• Some of the pictures of the models in magazines do not really exist. The pictures are computer-modified compilations of different body parts