3. • 20% of people suffering from anorexia will prematurely die
from complications related to their eating disorder, including
suicide and heart problems.
• 50% of people with eating disorders meet the criteria for
depression.
• Eating disorders have the highest death rate of any mental
illness.
• Over 1/2 of teenage girls and nearly 1/3 of teenage boys use
unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals,
fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives.
4. • The mortality rate of anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than
the death rate of all causes of death for females 15-24 years
old.
• Women are much more likely than men to develop an eating
disorder. Only an estimated 5 to 15 percent of people with
anorexia or bulimia are male.
8. • Anorexia means "without appetite” Nervosa is the Nervous System.
• Anorexia is one of the three most common types of teen eating
disorders.
• Anorexics consistently deprive their bodies of needed nutrition in
the form of calories, vitamins, electrolytes, and other nutrients for
long periods of time.
• It is a mental disorder. One simply cannot just ‘stop.’
• People with anorexia see themselves as overweight, even when
they are starved or are clearly malnourished.
• People with anorexia lose weight by dieting and exercising
excessively; others lose weight by self-induced vomiting, or
misusing laxatives, diuretics or enemas.
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10. • A person with anorexia typically weighs herself or himself
repeatedly, portions food carefully, and eats only very small
quantities of only certain foods.
• When a person with anorexia looks into a mirror he/she does
not often see an accurate reflection. A person with anorexia
sees him/herself as fat, even if he/she is dangerously thin.
This is a very frightening experience and feels very real –
driving the person to diet.
11. • Restricting Type-
• Anorexics severely restrict their calories sometimes taking in only a few
hundred calories a day or just water.
• The individual with anorexia has an appetite; they just try to control it.
• Binge/Purging Type-
• Individuals that lose control, they eat, or eat something they feel they
should not have eaten, they vomit or over exercise.
14. • Abnormally slow heart rate
• Low blood pressure
• Changes in the heart muscle and risk of heart failure
• Electrolyte imbalance
• Anemia
• Changes in your bones. Density loss called osteoporosis. Bones can
break more easily.
• Dental problems including erosion of your enamel
• Loss of muscle tone throughout your body
• Weakness and Fainting
• Severe dehydration, which can result in kidney failure
• Hair loss
15. 1) Ask for help- family, and friends
2) Find a doctor
3) Address your problems
4) Make long-term treatment plan
• The plan could include
Eating Disorder Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Eating Disorder Support Groups
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17. • People with Bulimia binge on food and then vomit (purge) in a
cycle of binging and purging.
• Binge eating refers to quickly eating large amounts of food
over short periods of time.
• Purging involves forced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives,
diet pills, or other medications.
• It might also involve excessive exercise, dieting, or fasting in
an attempt to lose weight that might be gained from eating
food or binging.
• The bulimia sufferer might induce vomiting by putting their
finger down their throat or by consuming a substance that
causes vomiting.
19. • Anorexia Symptoms plus the following.
• Repeatedly eating large amounts of food in a short period of
time (less than 2 hours).
• Frequently getting rid of the calories eaten (purging) by
making yourself vomit, fasting, exercising too much, etc.
• Scab or callouses on knuckle (from sticking fingers down
throat)
• Trips to the bathroom after every meal
• Substantial tooth decay due to increased contact with
stomach acids
• Large consumption of food at meal times
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22. • People with eating disorders are treated by doctors and
psychologists without being admitted to the hospital unless a
serious physical complication requires it.
• Early treatment is important, because over time this behavior
pattern becomes more deeply ingrained and harder to
change.
• Bulimia Treatments are usually therapy and support groups.
23. • Binge eating is compulsive overeating in which people
consume huge amounts of food while feeling out of control
and powerless to stop.
• A Binge Eating episode typically lasts around two hours, but
some people binge on and off all day long.
• Binge eaters often eat even when they’re not hungry and
continue eating long after they’re full.
• They may also gorge themselves as fast as they can while
barely registering what they’re eating or tasting.
24. • Eating unusually large amounts of food.
• Eating when you're full or not hungry.
• Frequently eating alone.
• Feeling that your eating behavior is out of control.
• Feeling disgusted, ashamed, guilty or upset about your eating
• Experiencing depression and anxiety.
• Feeling isolated and having difficulty talking about your
feelings.
• Frequently dieting, possibly without weight loss.
• Losing and gaining weight repeatedly, also called yo-yo
dieting.
25. • Similar to Bulimia Consequences
• Stressed
• Insomnia
• Suicidal
• Hypertension
• Hypercholesterolemia
• Diabetes
• Diseases of Gall Bladder, Liver and Kidney.
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27. 1) Ask for help- family, and friends
2) Find a doctor
3) Address your problems
4) Make long-term treatment plan
5) The plan could include
Eating Disorder Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Therapy Support Groups
28. • Learning to accept a broad range of body sizes.
• Adolescent girls are at a high risk for developing eating
problems, schools should provide prevention programs.
• Become educated about the causes and perpetuating factors
of eating disorders, especially those who are in contact with
high-risk groups.
• Teachers should also educate students about accepting a
wide range of weights and the dangers of dieting.
• Students can be engaged in discussions about social
pressures on women to be thin, pressure to achieve, as well as
prejudice against fat.
29. • Adolescent Suicide Hotline- 1-800-621-4000
• Eating Disorders Center- 1-888-236-1188
• Teen Helpline- 1-800-400-0900
• Suicide & Crisis Hotline- 1-800-999-9999
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)- 1-800-950-6264
