NUTR SCI 132 Lecture 17: Lecture 17 2:29
4 Apr 2016
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Normal eat: eat to hunger, normal weight. Over eat: over weight, binge eating. Can swing between under and over eating: binging, compensate by starvation, binge, purge, bullimia nervosa, generally with fluctuations. Disordered eating: someplace along continuum, undereating but not to the extent of anorexia, overeating, but not to the point of binging all the time. 1: considered psychological disorders, but have nutritional consequences. Incidence: 1 in 100-150 women, 20% of college-age women. History: first medical description in 1689, flapper era 1910-1920s, 3% of college women, course of disorder. Peculiar behaviors, obsessive compulsive, protectionism, high functioning: complications. Hypothermia, edema, amenhorrea, lanugo, brittle nails hair and skin, weakness, exhaustion, fatigue, poor wound healing,electrolyte imbalance >cardiac arrhythmic >death: treatment. Consumption of abnormal large amounts of food in a single sitting 2hrs. Subset of the overweight and depressed population, not complete overlap: onset. Plus consequences of being overweight heart disease, diabetes, etc: treatment. More generally outpatient: dietary change, nutrition education, behavior modification, psychotherapy, antidepressants.
