1. Eating Disorder
Chapter 4.2
Video – Starving for Control

2. Eating Disorders
Do the images show a narrow range of body shapes and sizes?
Are the females in the images taller and thinner than typical teenage girls?
Are the males in the images taller and more muscular than typical teenage boys?
Are there stories about people who are dieting, bulking up, or getting a makeover?
Does the magazine make you feel dissatisfied with your body?
Write a short paragraph summarizing what you learned. How did looking at the images affect you?

3. Mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food
More than just food
Emotions, thoughts, and attitudes
What types of eating disorders have you heard about?
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia
Binge Eating Disorder
Eating Disorders

4. What is the first thing that comes to mind when I say the word THANKSGIVING?
Can be a source of anxiety
Does not eat enough food to maintain a healthy body weight
Normal appetite & hunger pains
Symptoms
Extreme weight loss
Slowed heart and breathing rates
Dry skin
Fine body hair
Loss of menstrual period
90% of all cases are female
Anorexia Nervosa

5. Anorexia Nervosa Health Risks-Addiction See themselves as fat
Work harder to lose weight
Excessive exercise or diet
Lack of essential minerals causes heart to suddenly stop
Anorexia Nervosa

6. Anorexia Nervosa Possible Causes Usually a good student
Lack of a certain chemical that regulates mood
Low self-esteem
Troubled relationships
A person with a parent or sibling with an eating disorder are far likelier to develop one themselves
Anorexia Nervosa

7. Anorexia Nervosa Treatment First treated in hospitals
Doctors, nurses, and dietitians
Stop weight loss and change eating habits
Mental health experts
Correct emotional problems
Family help
Anorexia Nervosa

8. Go on uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging, or removing, the food from their bodies
Vomiting
Usually 2 times a week for 3 months to be bulimia
Laxatives
90 to 95% of cases are female
Too much food too quickly
Bathroom visits right after eating
Bulimia

9. Bulimia Health Risks Maintain normal body weight
Dehydration causing kidney damage
Lack of vitamins and minerals
Stomach acid
Inflames or causes tears in the throat
Erodes teeth enamel
Depression and suicide
Vomiting can decrease heart rate which weakens the heart causing failure
Bulimia

10. Possible Causes
Use food to feel better emotionally (relieve feelings of depression) then purge in order to not gain weight
Low self-esteem
Troubled relationships
Bulimia

11. Bulimia Treatments Aware but unable to control behavior
Too ashamed to seek help
Offer private support
Encourage to seek help from mental- health expert
Psychotherapy, antidepressants, and nutritional counseling
Bulimia

12. Bulimia Anorexia Learning Log Venn Diagram
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Possible Causes, Treatments,
Symptoms, & Health Risks

13. Regularly have an uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food
Don’t not purge or binge
Can’t stop eating once full
Intention to eat 2 slices of bread and end up eating the whole loaf
Used for coping with stress, depression, or anxiety
Binge Eating Disorder
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14. Try extreme weight loss diets Hunger causes more bingeing Yo-yo effect
Health Risks
Excess weight gain
Unhealthy diet
Diabetes
High blood pressure
Try extreme weight loss diets
Fad diets
Hunger causes more bingeing
Yo-yo effect
Binge Eating Disorder

15. Binge Eating Disorder Possible Causes
Never properly learned how to deal with stress
Avoid dealing with emotions or stressful situations
Food provides temporary relief but can lead to guilt or depression
Family that tends to overeat
Treatment
Eat more slowly and deliberately
Address underlying emotional problems
Binge Eating Disorder

16. Learning Log Quick Write
Pick one of the eating disorders we just learned about and write a ½ - 1 page description of what you think your day would be like with the eating disorder. Please include the stresses or emotions that you think you would feel, the guilt or shame from hiding it from friends and loved ones, the hunger pains from not eating, etc…
Learning Log
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17. Eating disorder – mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to foods
Anorexia Nervosa – eating disorder in which a person does not at enough food to maintain a healthy body weight
Bulimia – an eating disorder in which a person goes on uncontrollable eating binges followed by purging, or removing, the food from their bodies
Binge Eating – having an uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food
Vocabulary