Eating Disorders

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You Can't Weigh Your Self-Esteem or Self-Image
It's What's Inside That Carries The Most Weight
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• A Dangerous Habit that is Hard to Break!

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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)
• 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)

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Disordered Eating When Food Takes Control
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Self-Evaluation Quiz

• Are you constantly thinking about your weight and
  food?
• Are you dieting strictly and/or have you lost a
  lot of weight?
• Are you more than 10 below your healthy weight?
• Are people concerned about your weight?
• Is your energy level down?
• Do you constantly feel cold?
• Are your periods abnormal or have your periods
  stopped? 
• Are you overeating and feeling out of control?
• Are you vomiting, using laxatives or water pills,
  herbal agents, or trying to fast as a way to
  control your weight?
• Are you over exercising or do others
  consider your excersise excessive ?
• Does your weight drastically fluctuate?
• Do any of the above interfere with your enjoyment
  of life, relationships, or everyday functioning?
• If you answered yes to more than 5 of these
  questions, we would encourage you to get a
  professional evaluation.

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10 Year Study
Eating Disorders Statistical Analysis
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Profiles of Pain Is Thin Really In?
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Profiles of Pain Extreme Makeovers!
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Adolescent Characteristics of Eating Disorders
Spectrum of physical characteristics seen among
adolescents with eating disorders. 
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Diet and Nutrition Misinformation

• Peer Social Pressures
• Media Influences
• Popularity of Fad Diets
• Lose Fat Gain Muscle Now Mentality

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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

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Do You Have An Eating Disorder?

• Are you constantly thinking about, planning,
  worrying, or changing your daily life plans in
  order to achieve weight loss?
• Are you already considerably underweight? People
  tell you that you are too thin, yet you continue
  to see yourself as fat.
• Are you exercising excessively, using purgatives,
  or going on severely restrictive dietsall to
  lose more weight?
• Are your eating habits, weight loss, and negative
  attitude toward your body beginning to impact
  your ability to function or enjoy life?

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• 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

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Psychological Issues

• Psychological characteristics that can make a
  person more likely to develop anorexia nervosa
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• Low self-esteem
• Feelings of ineffectiveness
• Poor body image
• Depression
• Difficulty expressing feelings
• Rigid thinking patterns
• Need for control
• Perfectionism
• Physical or sexual abuse

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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.

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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.

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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.

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MEDIA MYTHS
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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.
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Influences of Models Fashion on Eating Disorders
Most fashion models are thinner than 98 of
American women. The average American woman is
5'4" tall and weighs 140 pounds. The average
American model is 5'11" and weighs 117 pounds.
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The resulting cycle makes it more difficult to
stop the disorder and become healthy again.
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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.

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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)
• 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!

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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.

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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.

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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
• 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

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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.

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Celebrities That HaveBattled Eating Disorders
Mary Kate Olsen
Tracy Gold
Shane Sia Barbi
Lara Flynn Boyle
Caslista Flockhart
Paula Abdul
Elton John
Princess Diana
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Celebrities That HaveBattled Eating Disorders
Carrie Otis
Richard Simmons
Justine Bateman
Courtney Thorne Smith
Karen Carpenter
Jane Fonda
Lindsay Lohan
Sally Field
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Treatment and Recovery

• Hospitalization
• Food Tolerance
• Medication
• After Care
• Counseling
• Nutrition Information
• Fitness Information
• Emotional
• Psychological
• Self-Image

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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?