Eating Disorders

Definitions

EATING DISORDERS DISORDERED EATING

 Medical diagnosis  Temporary or sporadic
 Can be life-threatening unhealthy eating
 Anorexia and bulimia attitudes and behaviors
 Binging, extreme
 Non-normative
dieting, overeating
 Normative
Bulimia Nervosa
 Bingeing and undoing of caloric intake
on regular basis

 ~3% of adolescents
Anorexia Nervosa

 Self-starvation due to a distorted body i

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 ~0.5% of adolescents
Overeating by teens

 More common among girls than boys

 Can result in being overweight or obese
 Usually teens who over eat also report dieting
 Compared to teens who don’t over eat:
 Score lower on body satisfaction measures
 Score lower on measure of self esteem
 Score higher on measures of depression
 Have more thoughts of suicide
Why Do Eating Disorders Develop?

 Individual Predispositions

 Environment

 Gene-Environment Interaction