1. Disordered Eating
Chapter 12

2. What Is Disordered Eating, and What Are Eating Disorders?
Pattern of unhealthy eating behaviors
Common
Typically do not persist
Eating disorder
Extreme disturbance of eating behaviors
Increase in diagnosed people
Personal and cultural aspects
Types

3. Behaviors Associated with Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating Patterns

4. What Is Disordered Eating, and What Are Eating Disorders?
Anorexia nervosa (AN)
Subcategories
Restricting type
Bing-eating/purging type
Weight loss becomes an obsession
Stem from psychological issues
Ways of coping

5. Types of Anorexia Nervosa

6. What Is Disordered Eating, and What Are Eating Disorders?
Anorexia nervosa (AN)
Behaviors
Limit food intake
Limit food varieties
Unusual food rituals
Obsessive behaviors
Regular weighing
Meticulous food records

7. What Is Disordered Eating, and What Are Eating Disorders?
Anorexia nervosa (AN)
Health concerns
Numerous
Chronic malnutrition
Decline in estrogen production
Amenorrhea
Treatment
Death rate
Two primary causes

8. Anorexia Nervosa

9. What Is Disordered Eating, and What Are Eating Disorders?
Bulimia nervosa (BN)
Use food as coping mechanism
More common than AN
Types
Binge-purge type
Nonpurging type
Common signs and symptoms

10. What Is Disordered Eating, and What Are Eating Disorders?
Bulimia nervosa (BN)
Rituals
Tend to carry out in secret
Often feel shame and guilt
Tend to be impulsive & have low self-esteem
More likely to seek treatment
Health concerns
Damage to the body

11. Bulimia Nervosa

12. What Is Disordered Eating, and What Are Eating Disorders?
Eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS)
Binge-eating disorder
Provisional diagnostic criteria
Prevalence is greater than AN & BN combined
Restrained eater
Bingeing

13. Are There Other Disordered Eating Patterns?
Nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (SRED)
Eat while asleep and no recollection
Prevalence
More common in women
Night eating syndrome (NES)
Individuals are aware of their eating
Signs and symptoms

14. Are There Other Disordered Eating Patterns?
Food neophobia
Irrational fear & avoidance of new foods
Limited ranges of foods
Tend to be slightly overweight
Muscle dysmorphia
Preoccupation with increasing muscularity
Behaviors
Low self-esteem
Concerns about masculinity

15. What Causes Eating Disorders?
Sociocultural factors
Abundant food and valued thinness
Media
Social networks
Family dynamics
Enmeshed families
Chaotic families
Mothers with eating disorders

16. What Causes Eating Disorders?
Personality traits & emotional factors
Concerning characteristics
Food preoccupation
Perfectionism
Biological & genetic factors
Depression

17. Are Athletes at Increased Risk for Eating Disorders?
Prevalence among collegiate athletes
Sports with highest numbers
Females
Males
Female athlete triad
Disordered eating
Menstrual dysfunction
Osteopenia
Injuries

18. Female Athlete Triad

19. Stress Fractures & Menstrual History in Collegiate Female Distance Runners

20. How Can Eating Disorders Be Prevented and Treated?
Treatment goals
Enjoy food without fear and guilt
Respond to physiological cues of hunger & satiety
Prevention programs
Overall health and self-esteem
Treatment strategies
Treatment goals vary by type of eating disorder

21. Promoting a Healthy Body Image among Children & Adolescents