NUTR 30300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Nutrition Science
• Course: NUTR 30300
• Professor: Jay Burgess

Document Summary

Disordered eating-mild and short-term changes in eating patterns that occur in relation to a stressful event, an illness, or a desire to modify one"s diet for a variety of health and personal appearance reasons. Eating disorder-severe alternations in eating patterns linked to physiological changes. The alterations are associated with food restrictions, binge eating, inappropriate compensatory behaviors, and fluctuations in weight. They also involve a number of emotional and cognitive changes that affect the way a person perceives and experiences his or her body. Anorexia nervosa-an eating disorder characterized by extreme restriction of energy intake relative to requirements leading to significantly low body weight. Bulimia nervosa-an eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain. Binge-eating disorder-an eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes that are associated with marked distress and lack of control over behavior, nut not follow by inappropriate compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain.