1. What’s Eating You?
Fatima Chaudhry

2. Types of Eating Disorders:
* Anorexia Nervosa
* Bulimia Nervosa
* Binge Eating
* Anorexia Athletica
* EDNOS – (Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified)
Most Common

3. Anorexia Nervosa
Inability to maintain weight within a normal range for height and age (more than 15 percent below ideal body weight)
Fear of getting fat
Distorted body image
Leads to decreased or diminished menstrual periods
May lead to heart failure and death

5. Bulimia Nervosa Binging and Purging Loss of control
Weight loss with use of:
Vomiting
Laxatives
Enemas (the fluid injected)

7. Binge-Eating Disorder
Consume unusually large amounts of food quickly or in short time periods
Embarrassing behavior
Loss of control and inability to stop

8. Causes of Eating Disorders
* One of most common causes of an eating disorder is low or lack of self-esteem.
* Women tend to compare themselves with the models and celebrities on magazine covers or on TV
* Media portrayal of the “perfect woman” as being
Thin.

9. Eating disorder in Men
Women are not alone, men may also suffer from eating disorders
* Males with the illness have a distored sense of body image and often have muscle dysmorphia, a type of disorder that is characterized by an extreme concern with becoming more muscular.
* Eating disorders in males may be an obsession with either weight loss or gain
* Males who think they are too small are at a greater risk for using steroids or other dangerous drugs to increase muscle mass.
* Males with eating disorders exhibit the same types of emotional, physical and behavioral signs and symptoms as females.

10. Eating Disorder Statistics
About 7 million girls and women struggle with eating disorders
1 million boys and men struggle with eating disorders
Amount of people affected by specific eating disorders in the United States:
* 0.5% - 3.7% of females suffer from Anorexia Nervosa in their lifetime * 1.1% - 4.2% of females suffer from Bulimia Nervosa in their lifetime * 2% - 5% of the American population experience Binge Eating Disorder * 10%-25% of all those battling anorexia will die as a direct result of the
eating disorder * Up to 19% of college aged women in America are bulimic
Age at onset of an eating disorder: * 10% report onset at 10 years or younger * 33% report onset between ages of * 43% report onset between ages of * 86% report onset of illness by the age of 20

11. Risk Factors

12. FACTS! Eating disorder-related hospitalizations increased 18 %.
Anorexia nervosa hospitalizations increased 17%.
Bulimia nervosa hospitalizations decreased 7% and all other eating disorder hospitalizations increased 38%.
Eating disorder-related hospitalizations for children under age 12 increased 119%.
For men, hospitalizations due to eating disorders increased 37%.
Total hospital costs for eating disorders increased 61%.