1. Eating Disorders
Chapter 16

2. Eating Disorders
Many young females, especially athletes suffer from eating disorders
The cause varies but includes sociocultural, psychological, and perhaps neurochemical factors

3. Athlete Eating Disorders
Disordered eating habits can develop due to:
Desire to improve performance
Enhance aesthetic appeal of their performance
Desire to meet unsuitable weight requirements

4. Athlete Eating Disorders
Preventing Eating Disorders in athletes:
Follow the Food Guide Pyramid
Eat frequently, especially healthy snacks
Establish reasonable weight goal
Allow reasonable time to achieve goal weight
Weight maintenance support group

5. Anorexia Nervosa Characteristics:
Role of family-inability to resolve family conflicts
Self-starvation-tremendous self-control to limit eating
Great physical consequences-life-threatening

6. Anorexia Nervosa Treatment is multidisciplinary:
Medical-stabilize patient and provide nutrition when 75% below ideal body weight and-or have electrolyte imbalance
Mental health-establish positive relationships with self and others
Work to repair cognitive distortions

7. Bulimia Nervosa Characteristics:
Role of family-unresolved family issues
Binge eating-lack of control over eating, excessive kcalories from high-fat, low-fiber and high-carbohydrate foods at once
Purging after binge-laxatives and/or emetics

8. Bulimia Nervosa Treatment: Weight maintenance Regular exercise
Counseling

9. Binge-Eating Disorder
Unspecified eating disorder sharing some of the characteristics of anorexia and bulimia yet does not meet criteria for diagnosis
Lack of self-control over eating binges
Consuming large quantities of food, eating quickly, feeling uncomfortably full, eating alone, feelings of guilt and disgust after eating

10. Binge-Eating Disorder
Marked distress about weight or eating
Occurrence of two times per week for six months
Eating disorders occur more commonly in
developed nations where food and money are
plentiful. Learning to appreciate the
uniqueness of oneself may be the key to
defense.