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.

• 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

Is it any wonder

we have distorted

body images?

What are underlying causes of eating disorders?

Underlying Causes for Eating Disorders

Genetic

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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?

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Anorexicsbody 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?

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?

Does media give us a false sense of how we should look and how we feel about our

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

If we are all exposed to media and photo shopped images, why don’t we all have eating disorders?

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

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.

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Binge Eating Disorder Compulsive Overeating

• 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

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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 What is the difference between BulimiaBulimia and Compulsive and Compulsive

Overeating?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

____________________