• There are four different categories eating disorders fall into.
• Anorexia Nervosa is defined as unusual behaviors that have to do with body image issues of unrealistic ideas.
• Bulimia Nervosa is defined as a binge a purge disorder due to the person having self-image issues.
• Binge Eating Disorder is defined as someone who eats an unusual amount of food without being able to control his/her urges.
• OSFED is defined as a disorder that does not meet the criteria of the other three eating disorders.
• There are several reasons someone develops an eating disorder. The most common are genetics, psychological factors, and or social-cultural factors.
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They all have factors that separate them from one another. This article tells you what physical and psychological people tend to be presenting. It also tells the different physical signs and symptoms from everything that it these disorders effect. In the video displayed on the website, Thomas Insal, MD, the director of NIMH, goes more into detail about everything.
Key Words and Names from the article
• Bulima Nervousa
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Binge-Eating Disorder
• OSFED (Other specified Feeding and Eating Disorder)
• Thomas Insal, MD
Nevid J. & Rathus S.(2014) Psychology and the Challenges of Life (12th Edition) Wiley ;retrieved from pg. 165-pg.169
Facts
Pg 165
• For every 6 women, 1 man has an eating disorder stated by Good E. (2000)
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• 25% of body weight is lost with anorexia.
• Ana Caroline, a model, succumbed to anorexia at the young age of 21.
• Anorexia can be a fatal condition.
• Someone suffering from anorexia has an abnormal obsession with food and also may have a distorted vision of what his/her body is supposed to look like.
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• Obsession of food
• Psychological factor
• Ana Caroline
• Greenberg & Schoen, 2008
• Klump & Culbert, 2006
• Social factors
Eating Disorders and Minoritites; retrieved from World Wide Web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/eating-disorders-minorities.html
Facts
• Marian Fitzgibbon, along with Melinda Stolley are both Psychiatrist that conducted this study at Northwestern University.
• Anorexia is divided into two categories: one which is where they eat very scarce meals containing hardly any calories; the other category is where they eat a normal meal and the throw it up.
• Bulimia nervosa has a main characteristic of overeating and not being able to control it, then followed by guilt or remorse so then they throw it up.
• In binge eating, the person does not vomit afterwards.
• Binge eating disorder was identified as early as 1950’s.
• African American women are less likely to have eating disorders than white women.
• Overweight African American women are 59%, while 34% is white women.
• The body image satisfaction is very different between African American women and white women.
• Studies show Latino’s and white women have very similar views on what a so called “perfect body”