1. Body Image and Eating Disorders (2:06)
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2. Poor body image may lead to unhealthful and harmful eating behaviors.

3. Your Body Image
The media and other influences can affect your body image.
Try to accept yourself the way you are.

4. Your Body Image
When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? If the answer is yes, that means that your body image is positive.
Body image
The way you see your body

5. Peers and media images can influence body image.
Your Body Image
Peers and media images can influence body image.
Images shown in the media aren’t always realistic.
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6. History of body image

7. Fad Diets
Fad diets are neither safe nor reliable ways to lose weight.
People on fad diets may lose weight temporarily, but they usually regain it after going off the diet.

8. Fad Diets
Teens who want to lose weight may be tempted to try fad diets that promise quick, easy weight loss.
Fad diets
Weight-loss plans that tend to be popular for only a short time

9. People who follow fad diets may fall into weight cycling.
A repeated pattern of losing and regaining body weight

10. Types of Fad Diets Types of Fad Diets Miracle Foods Magic Combinations
Fasting
Types of Fad Diets
Diet Pills
Liquid Diets

11. Recognizing Fad Diets
Any diet plan that does not follow the MyPyramid guidelines may deprive your body of nutrients.

12. Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are extreme and dangerous eating behaviors that require medical attention.
Eating disorders are classified as mental illnesses.

13. Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are often linked to depression, low self-esteem, or troubled personal relationships.
Eating disorders
Extreme, harmful eating behaviors that can cause serious illness or even death

14. Eating Disorders
Social and cultural forces that emphasize physical appearance can play a role in eating disorders.
Research also suggests that genetics may be a factor in the development of eating disorders.

15. Anorexia Nervosa
People with anorexia nervosa see themselves unrealistically as overweight even when they are dangerously thin.
Anorexia nervosa
An eating disorder in which an irrational fear of weight gain leads people to starve themselves

16. Anorexia Nervosa avoiding food and meals
eating only a few kinds of food in small amounts
People with anorexia develop obsessive behaviors related to food, such as:
weighing or counting the calories in everything they eat
exercising excessively
weighing themselves repeatedly

17. Anorexia Nervosa Possible health consequences Brittle bones
Drop in body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure
Possible health consequences
Reduction in organ size
Heart problems and sudden cardiac death

18. People with bulimia nervosa regularly binge then purge.
An eating disorder that involves cycles of overeating and purging, or attempts to rid the body of food

19. Bulimia Nervosa
Binging is eating a huge amount of food in a single sitting.
Purging is forcing vomiting, taking laxatives to flush food out of the system, or fasting or exercising frantically after a binge.

20. Bulimia Nervosa Possible health consequences Dehydration
Sore and inflamed throat
Swollen glands
Possible health consequences
Damaged teeth
Damage to the stomach, intestines, or kidneys
Irregular heart rhythms, heart failure, and death

21. People with binge eating disorder do not purge.
an eating disorder in which people overeat compulsively

22. Consequences of binge eating disorder include:
Developing the health problems associated with obesity
Becoming overweight or obese

23. Seeking Help
Eating disorders are serious illnesses that require medical help.
Medical help may involve counseling, nutritional guidance, a doctor’s care, and, in extreme cases, a hospital stay.

24. Seeking Help
If you think that you or someone you know may have an eating disorder, talk to a trusted adult, such as a parent, counselor, or school nurse.