1. Body Image & Eating Disorders
Objectives:
SWBAT identify eating behaviors that are harmful to one’s health.
SWBAT locate & seek resources that can help deal or manage eating disorders.
Warm-Up:
What are some factors that influence how you think about your body?
Create a chart that with the following columns: Symptoms, Health Risks and rows: Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating
Disorder
Symptoms
Health Risks
Anorexia
Bulimia
Binge Eating

2. Your Body Image Media & other influence can affect your body image
BODY IMAGE: the way you see your body
Influences:
Models, Actors, Athletes
Peers
Accepting Yourself
Growth Spurts
Hormonal Changes

3. Fad Diets Fad Diets are neither safe nor reliable ways to lose weight
FAD DIETS: weight loss plans that tend to be popular for only a short time.
Fad Diets lead to WEIGHT CYCLING: a repeated pattern of losing & regaining body weight
Recognizing Fad Diets
Does not follow MyPyramid Guidelines
Promises ultra-fast weight loss
Promises you can lose weight without physical activity
Uses words like: effortless, guaranteed, miraculous, secret
Require you to buy certain products

4. Fad Diets Types of Fad Diets
Miracle Foods: plans that promise you can “burn fat” by eating lots of single foods
Magic Combinations: certain foods eaten together trigger weight loss
Liquid Diets: replace solid foods with ultra-low calorie foods
Diet Pills: suppress appetite so you eat less, or “block” fat from the body
Fasting: not eating; depriving body of nutrients & can result in dehydration

5. Eating Disorders
Extreme & dangerous eating behaviors that require medical attention
Classified as mental illnesses—often linked to depression, low self-esteem, or troubled personal relationships
Eating disorders run in families
Social & cultural forces that emphasize physical appearance can play a role

6. Anorexia Nervosa
Eating disorder win which an irrational fear of weight gain leads people to starve themselves
See themselves as unrealistically overweight even when dangerously thin
Factors:
Outside pressures
High expectations
Need to be accepted
Need to achieve
Affects self-concept & coping abilities

7. Anorexia Nervosa Obsessive Behaviors: Health Consequences
Avoiding food & meals
Eating only a few kinds of food in small amounts
Weighing or counting the calories in everything they eat
Exercising excessively
Weighing themselves repeatedly
Health Consequences
Malnutrition & starvation
Brittle bones (osteoporosis)
Decreased heart rate, blood pressure  reduced organ size  heart problems & cardiac death
Decreased body temp.
Decreased ability to fight off infection

8. Bulimia Nervosa
Eating disorder that involves cycles of overeating and purging
Behaviors:
Go on binge, feel guilty so they purge
Typically in the normal weight range for age & height
Fear of weight gain
Dissatisfaction with their bodies
Health Consequences
Dehydration
Sore & inflamed throat
damaged teeth
Damage to stomach, intestines, kidneys, esophagus
Chemical Imbalances  Irregular Heart Rhythm  Heart Failure -- Death

9. Binge Eating Disorder Eating disorder in which people eat compulsively
Not as frequent as bulimia
During binge, disgusted with behavior, but powerless to stop it
More common in males
Health Consequences: obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease

10. Key Questions List 2 factors that influence body image.
How might a poor body image result in an eating disorder?