1. Eating Disorders

2. Poor Body Image Trying to reach societies “perfect body”
Social influence
Magazines TV
Pressure from peers
Size 14
Poor Body Image

3. Body Image Issues

4. Food for thought
Did you know that if female mannequins were real women they'd be too thin to have babies
If Barbie was a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
The average woman wears between a size 12-14

5. Emotional and Personality Disorders
Body Image Influences
Family Pressures
Media
Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women (Smolak, 1996).
Cultural Pressures
Emotional and Personality Disorders

6. Negative Family Influences
Parental Attitudes and Behaviors
40% of 9- and 10-year-old girls trying to lose weight generally did so with the urging of their mothers
Family History of Addictions or Emotional Disorders
People Easting Disorders are more likely to have parents with alcoholism or substance abuse than are those in the general population
Sexual abuse rates as high as 35% in women with bulimia
History of Abuse
May have overweight family members or may have been overweight themselves
Family Obesity History
Negative Family Influences

7. Behaviors Food Related: Rituals involving food
Perfectionists
Anxiety
Control Issues
Low-self esteem
Pressured
Experienced Trauma
Food Related:
Rituals involving food
Extremely low food intake
Obsessive about food
Behaviors

8. Types of Disorders Bulimia Nervosa Anorexia Nervosa
an eating disorder characterized by unrealistic fear of weight gain, self-starvation, and distortion of body image
Bulimia Nervosa
consume large amounts of food (binge) and then try to rid themselves of the food and calories (purge)
Binge-Eating Disorder
condition characterized by recurrent binge eating. Eating very rapidly; eating until uncomfortably full; eating when not hungry

9. INTENSE fear of gaining weight
Anorexia Nervosa
INTENSE fear of gaining weight
Skewed body image even when clearly underweight
Specific amount of food they “can” eat everyday
Rituals when eating
Always think about food

10. Anorexia Nervosa Types: Restricting Symptoms: Over Exercise
1.  Refusal to maintain healthy weight
2.  Intense Fear of Gaining Weight or Becoming Fat, Even if Underweight
3. Body Image Problems
4. Amenorrhea or Absence of Menstruation
Ten Warning Signs:
Deliberate self-starvation with weight loss • Intense, persistent fear of gaining weight • Refusal to eat or highly restrictive eating • Continuous dieting • Excessive facial/body hair because of inadequate protein in the diet • Compulsive exercise • Abnormal weight loss • Sensitivity to cold • Absent or irregular menstruation • Hair loss
Anorexia Nervosa

11. Anorexia Nervosa SCARY stats! 40 – 60% of high school girls diet.
42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner (Collins, 1991).
81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat (Mellin et al., 1991).
40 – 60% of high school girls diet.
50% of girls between the ages of 13 and 15 believe they are overweight.
80% of 13 year old girls have dieted.
40% of 9 year old girls dieted.
SCARY stats!
10% of anorexia occurs in men,

12. Bulimia Nervosa WHAT: HOW: WHY:
A disorder characterized by frequent binge eating followed by regret and efforts to stop weight gain.
WHAT:
Purging after binge eating by using laxatives, induced vomiting, excess exercising etc.
HOW:
Bulimia Nervosa
WHY:
Fear of gaining weight or not being thin enough.

13. Eating large amounts of food in short amount of time
Binge
Eating large amounts of food in short amount of time
Purge
Try to take back the binge by throwing up, exercising to exhaustion, using diuretics, etc.
Bulimia Nervosa

14. Bulimia Nervosa Binge Eating Symptoms Purging Symptoms
Lack of control over eating
Secrecy surrounding eating
Eating unusually large amounts of food
Disappearance of food
Alternating between over eating and fasting.
Purging Symptoms
Going to the bathroom after meals
Using laxatives, diuretics, enemas
Smell of vomit
Excessive Exercising
Bulimia Nervosa

15. Bulimia Nervosa Effects Weight gain Abdominal pain, bloating
Swelling of the hands and feet
Chronic sore throat, hoarseness
Broken blood vessels in the eyes
Swollen cheeks and salivary glands
Weakness and dizziness
Tooth decay and mouth sores
Acid reflux or ulcers
Ruptured stomach or esophagus
Loss of menstrual periods
Chronic constipation from
laxative abuse
Bulimia Nervosa

16. Binge-Eating Disorder
Binge eating disorder is characterized by compulsive overeating in which people consume huge amounts of food while feeling out of control and powerless to stop.
Binge-Eating Disorder
Frequent episodes of uncontrollable binge eating
Feeling extremely distressed or upset during or after bingeing
No regular attempts to “make up” for the binges through vomiting, fasting, or over-exercising.

17. Signs of Emotional Eating
Using food to:
fill a void in your life
feel better or cheer yourself up
calm down or soothe your nerves
escape from problems
cope with stress and worries
reward yourself
People with binge eating disorder
suffer from this psychological
Binge-Eating Disorder

18. Binge-Eating Disorder
Behavior
Symptoms
-Inability to stop eating
-Rapid eating
-Eating past full
-Hiding food
-Stockpiling food
-no planned meals
Binge-Eating Disorder
-Feeling tension that is relieved by eating
-Embarrassment
-Feeling numb during binge
- Feel guilt
Emotional Symptoms

19. Make long term treatment plan
Treatment & Recovery
STEP 1
Find a Specialist
STEP 2
Address health needs
STEP 3
Make long term treatment plan

20. EveryBODY is different