Do You Ever Feel Like Your Just Not Good Enough?

2. Do You Ever Feel Like Your Just Not Good Enough?

3. Eating Disorder Statistics: • The most common behavior that will lead to an eating disorder is dieting. (AABA, 1998) • It is estimated that currently 11% of high school students have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. (ANAD) • The diet and diet related industry is over a 50 billion dollar a year enterprise in the U.S. (M. Maine, 2000)

4. Eating Disorder Statistics: • The average woman is 5"4’ and weighs 140 pounds. The average model is 5"11’ and weighs 117 pounds. Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women. (Smolak, 1996) • Up to 19% of college aged women in America are bulimic. (Rader Programs)

5. 1 in 5 Girls Exhibit Eating Disorder Behavior: According to a 2007 national study, the number of young girls developing eating disorders has almost doubled to 18% in the past six years.

6. Diet and Nutrition Misinformation • Psychological Issues • Genetic Factors • Media & Fashion Influences

7. What causes Eating Disorders? • Media & Advertising • Cultural Pressures • Psychological Issues • Low Self-Esteem, and Poor Self-Image • Genetic factors • Life Transitions • Family Problems • Peer & Social Pressure

8. Preoccupied with food • Preoccupied with weight • Distorted body image • Poor self-esteem • Depression • Mood swings • Engages in binge eating • Obsessive Exercise • Abuse of diet aids • Extreme weight loss • Engages in purging • Nutritional deficiencies • Lack of self-control with food

9. Psychological Issues • Psychological characteristics that can make a person more likely to develop anorexia nervosa include: • Low self-esteem • Feelings of ineffectiveness • Poor body image • Depression • Difficulty expressing feelings

10. Can You Believe? • Over 60% of girls avoid certain activities because they feel bad about their looks • Examples • 19% won’t try out for a team or club • 23% won’t go to the beach or the pool • 13% won’t give an opinion • 15% won’t go to school • 92% say the main change they’d have is their weight • Looking at magazines for just 60 minutes lowers the self esteem of 80% of girls • 63% of girls would rather model for a men’s magazine than be a doctor, teacher, or nurse

11. Psychological Issues • Psychological characteristics that can make a person more likely to develop anorexia nervosa include: • Rigid thinking patterns • Need for control • Perfectionism • Physical or sexual abuse

12. Genetic Factors Anorexia nervosa occurs eight times more often in people who have relatives with the disorder. However, experts do not know exactly what the inherited factor may be. In addition, anorexia nervosa occurs more often in families with a history of depression or alcohol abuse.

13. Media Influence on Teens • Women are bombarded with messages from the media that they must diet to meet this standard. • However, this idealized ultra-thin body shape is almost impossible for most women to achieve since it does not fit with the biological and inherited factors that determine natural body weight.

14. Media & Fashion Influences on Eating Disorders • The influence of the media and fashion on the proliferation of eating disorders cannot be refuted. • From an early age we are bombarded with images and messages that reinforce the idea to be happy and successful we must be thin. • Today, you cannot read a magazine or newspaper, turn on the television, listen to the radio, or shop at the mall without being assaulted with the message that fat is bad. • Adolescents often feel fatally flawed if their weight, hips, and breasts don't match up to those of models and actors.

15. MEDIA MYTHS

16. How Do People withEating Disorders View Life? • Food and eating dominate the life of a person with anorexia nervosa. • Distorted view of weight and shape become the main or even sole measures of self-worth. • Maintaining an extremely low weight becomes equated with beauty, success, self-esteem, and self-control and is not seen as a problem. • People with an eating disorder think about food, weight, and body image constantly.

17. Adolescent Characteristics of Eating Disorders Spectrum of physical characteristics seen among adolescents with eating disorders. 

19. What is Anorexia Nervosa? • Anorexia nervosa, in the most simple terms, is self-starvation. • Anorexics feel there is a serious disturbance in the way they feel about food, weight, and body image. • Anorexics are also often characterized as stubborn, vain, appearance-obsessed people who simply do not know when to stop dieting.

20. What Medical Problems Can Anorexia Nervosa Cause? Problems associated in weight loss include lowering of: • Heart rate • Blood pressure • Breathing rate • Body temperature (which may result in feeling cold)

21. What Medical Problems Can Anorexia Nervosa Cause? Other Physical problems include: • Thinning or drying of the hair “Lanugo" hair (a fine hair that develops on the face, back, or arms and legs) • Dry skin • Restlessness and reduced sleep • Yellowish color on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet • Lack of or infrequent menstrual periods • Death!

22. Anorexia Facts • People in certain occupations that emphasize leanness to improve performance and appearance are at increased risk for developing anorexia nervosa. • These include dancers, gymnasts, figure skaters, runners, wrestlers, cheerleaders, sorority girls, and models.

23. What is Bulimia Nervosa? • Bulimia Nervosa, in the most simple terms, is binge eating followed by forced vomiting • Bulimics feel there is a serious disturbance in the way they feel about food, weight, and body image. • Bulimics are also often characterized as stubborn, vain, appearance-obsessed people who simply do not know when to stop dieting.

24. Signs & Symptoms of Bulimia • Eating uncontrollably, binging, and purging • Forced Vomiting or Vomiting Blood • Abusing Laxatives, or Diuretics • Going to the bathroom frequently after eating • Preoccupied with body weight • Depression and mood swings • Feeling out of control

25. Signs & Symptoms of Bulimia • Swollen glands in neck and face • Heartburn, bloating, indigestion, or constipation • Irregular menstrual periods • Dental and gum problems • Persistent sore throat • Bloodshot eyes • Weakness, Fatigue, Exhaustion

26. Compulsive Overeating Disorder • This eating disorder, also called binge eating disorder is characterized by an addiction to food. • An individual suffering with compulsive overeating disorder has episodes of uncontrolled eating or binging, during which he or she may have a pressured, frenzied feeling. • The person may continue to eat even after becoming uncomfortably full. The binge is typically followed by a period of intense guilt and/or depression.

27. Preoccupied with food • Preoccupied with weight • Distorted body image • Poor self-esteem • Depression • Mood swings • Engages in binge eating • Obsessive Exercise • Abuse of diet aids • Extreme weight loss • Engages in purging • Nutritional deficiencies • Lack of self-control with food

28. Celebrities That HaveBattled Eating Disorders Mary Kate Olsen Princess Diana Elton John Paula Abdul

29. Celebrities That HaveBattled Eating Disorders Richard Simmons Lindsay Lohan Jane Fonda Karen Carpenter

30. Treatment and Recovery: • Hospitalization • Food Tolerance • Medication • After Care • Counseling • Nutrition Information • Fitness Information • Emotional • Psychological • Self-Image

31. Questions to Think About • Do people really want to make themselves a skinny – fat person? • What would you do if you knew someone with an eating disorder? • How could you help a friend that developed a eating disorder?