NSD 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Female Athlete Triad, Binge Eating Disorder, Extreme Weight Loss
12 Apr 2016
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Q:the biggest contributor to our energy expenditure is: resing metabolic rate. Q: a good strategy for losing weight is: follow the luids, iller, feast strategy. Disordered eaing: variety of abnormal or a typical eaing behaviors used to reduce weight. Eaing disorder: psychiatric condiion involving extreme body dissaisfacion and long term eaing paterns harming the body. 20 mil women and 10 mil men sufer from an eaing disorder. Anorexia nervosa an eaing disorder characterized by: extreme weight loss. Due to very low (or no) food intake. May also exercise intensly: poor body image, overwhelming desire to be thin. No mater how emaciated they are, they never feel thin enough. Irraional fears of gaining fat and becoming overweight. People w/ anorexia nervosa eat less than 1200 (around 560 per day) Men: low testosterone, diminished sex drive, impaired ferility. In western society: 1% of adolescent and young women. Nsd 225 notes: . 1% of young males.
