NUTR 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Hypotension, National Eating Disorders Association, Cardiac Arrhythmia
31 May 2018
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NUTR 200 Nutrition for Today 5/21/2018
MJ Gunnrson, MS, RDN 1
Disordered Eating Behaviors
Reading
P 437, 440-446
Chapter 19 - Itroductio, Deteriats of Eatig Behavior, Eatig Challeges…, Eatig
Disorders
Objectives for today:
• Define anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating disorder, female athlete triad
• Describe some characteristics of each of the disorders just listed
• Describe the health consequences of eating disorders in terms of long term clinical outcomes
(bone health, anemia, immune health)
Definitions
Disordered eating = variety of abnormal or atypical eating behaviors used to reduce weight or
maintain weight loss
Eating disorder = Condition characterized by extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors
surrounding body image and food
• Anorexia nervosa
• Bulimia nervosa
• About 13 million people in the US struggle with eating disorders.
▪ Approximately 90% are females between the ages of 15 and 35
▪ 1 in 5 women struggle with disordered eating or eating disorders
▪ 10 to 20% of female college students to as high as 12 to 15% for females in medical
and graduate schools.
▪ 4-10% of male college students
Multiple factors contribute to eating behaviors and can also contribute to the development of
an eating disorder:
-unrealistic media images
-sociocultural values
-family environment
-personality traits
-genetic factors
-excess availability of high fat/sugar food
Body Image:
-abundance of food coupled with emphasis on slimness
---the media consistently portrays the e
extremely thin woman and lean men as the ideal body types
-consequences:
--distortions of actual versus perceived body weight
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NUTR 200 Nutrition for Today 5/21/2018
MJ Gunnrson, MS, RDN 2
---many normal and underweight females inaccurately perceive that they are overweight
Eating disorders:
-currently only 1 in 10 people with an ED get treatment
-50% of people diagnosed with an ED also have depression
--25% of female’s college students engage in bing/
Anorexia Nervosa
What the scale says is tied to self-esteem
Individuals assume that everyting will change
once they reach their goal weight, which
continuously decreases.
Being thin and not eating-interpreted as true
signs of power and success
-a medical disorder
--unhealthful behaviors are used to
maintain a body weight less than 85%
of expected weight
--90-95% are young girls and women
--0.5-1% of US females will develop
anorexia
--5-20% of females with anorexia will die
from complications within 10 years
of diagnosis
• 4 characteristics
o Distortion of body image
--the way of a person perceives their body size shape or overall appearance
o Obsession with body size
o Pre-occupation with dieting
and thinness
o Refusal to eat enough food
to maintain a minimally
normal body weight
Symptoms –
• Extremely restrictive eating practices
o Self-starvation
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Document Summary
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