Understanding Eating Disorders: An Overview

1. Eating Disorders By: Mangpor

2. 95% of those who have eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25

3. What is it? • An eating disorder is a condition defined by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual's physical and mental health.

4. Anorexia Nervosa

6. Diagnostic Criteria • Significant weight loss or lack of weight gain in children, so that body weight is maintained at least 15% below the expected normal weight for age and height for. • Weight loss is self-inflicted by the rejection of fattening foods, or by self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives, diuretics (which makes them urinate more frequently) or drugs that suppress appetite, or excessive exercise. Often patients make up rules about what foods are allowed, or claim that exercise is necessary after ingesting some food. • Body image distortion with intense and persistent fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, all linked to the constant feeling of being fat , even when their weight is objectively inferior to other people of the same height, so that the patient imposing a much lower limit of their body weight. That is, people with anorexia nervosa pursuing an ideal weight very low. • Weight loss can cause hormonal disorders lead, among other consequences, the drawdown in women, and impotence and loss of sexual interest in men.

7. Methods • Purging • Diet-pills • Fasting • Etc.

8. Complications • Cardiovascular • Gastrointestinal • Musculoskeletal • Metabolic and Endocrine • Urinary • Hematological • Dermatological • Psychiatric

9. Bulimia Nervosa

10. Diagnostic Criteria • Persistent preoccupation with food along with an irresistible desire or compulsive overeating. • Episodes of overeating in which consume large amounts of food in short periods of time. • The patient attempts to counteract the impact of binge eating on weight by one or more of the following means: excessive exercise, self-induced vomiting after ingestion, prolonged periods of fasting or consumption of drugs such as laxatives, diuretics or appetite suppressants. • Excessive fear or morbid to obesity . This is also observed in anorexia nervosa. In fact, often bulimic patients have had previous episodes of anorexia nervosa.

11. Health Complications • Damage to the teeth by stomach acid • Urinary tract infections • Alterations in blood ions • Endocrine disorders • Decreases in female hormones • Infertility • Etc.

13. Binge-Eating

14. Diagnostic Criteria • Recurrent episodes of binge eating, including eating an abnormally large amount of food and feeling a lack of control over eating • Binge eating that's associated with at least three of these factors: eating rapidly; eating until you're uncomfortably full; eating large amounts when you're not hungry; eating alone out of embarrassment; or feeling disgusted, depressed or guilty after eating • Binge eating at least twice a week for at least six months • Binge eating that's not associated with purging, such as self-induced vomiting

15. Health Complications • Stroke • High blood pressure • High cholesterol • Heart related diseases

16. Pica Eating Disorder

17. Adele Edwards

18. Purging Disorders

19. Chart

21. Causes • Biological • Psychological • Socio-cultural

22. Treatments • Psychological • Drug

23. UDHR • Article 25.1 • “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family...”