This document discusses eating disorders, defining them as illnesses involving disturbances in eating behaviors stemming from environmental and mental health factors. The main eating disorders covered are anorexia nervosa, characterized by an intense fear of weight gain and low body weight, and bulimia nervosa, involving binge eating followed by purging. Eating disorders typically emerge during teenage years or earlier and can be physically and psychologically life-threatening if not properly treated.
This document discusses eating disorders, defining them as illnesses involving disturbances in eating behaviors stemming from environmental and mental health factors. The main eating disorders covered are anorexia nervosa, characterized by an intense fear of weight gain and low body weight, and bulimia nervosa, involving binge eating followed by purging. Eating disorders typically emerge during teenage years or earlier and can be physically and psychologically life-threatening if not properly treated.
This document discusses eating disorders, defining them as illnesses involving disturbances in eating behaviors stemming from environmental and mental health factors. The main eating disorders covered are anorexia nervosa, characterized by an intense fear of weight gain and low body weight, and bulimia nervosa, involving binge eating followed by purging. Eating disorders typically emerge during teenage years or earlier and can be physically and psychologically life-threatening if not properly treated.
Look in the mirror. What do you see? Is it the real
you or just another "me"? What is an Eating Disorder
• Eating Disorder an illness that involve crucial disturbances in
eating behaviors thought to stem from some environmental pressures.
• An eating disorder is different forms of irregular eating habits
due to lack of confidence or and mental instability or simply caused by stress. What is an Eating Disorders • Eating disorders includes inadequate or excessive food intake which is extremely destructive to your health • Although eating disorders can appear in any stage of one’s life but this disorder mostly occurs early in your teenage life or even before. • These disorders are characterized by an intense fear of becoming fat, which does not disappear even when the person is losing weight in extreme amounts. Anorexia Nervosa • is an eating disorder characterized by fear of gaining weight, and guilty when they consume high calories. • Its psychologically and physically life threatening • Those suffering from this disorder are suffering from extremely low body weight compared to their height and body build.