This document discusses eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. It defines each disorder and lists their warning signs and health risks. Eating disorders are caused by a combination of psychological, interpersonal, social/cultural, and biological factors like low self-esteem, troubled relationships, cultural pressures around thinness, and genetic components. The document also contains multiple choice questions to test the reader's understanding.

1. EATING DISORDERS:
AMIT SINGH

2. EATING DISORDERS:
Look in the mirror. What do you see? Is it the real
you or just another "me"?

3. WHAT IS AN EATING DISORDER?
 Eating disorders are mental
illnesses that cause serious
disturbances in a person’s
everyday diet. It can manifest
as eating extremely small
amounts of food or severely
overeating. The condition
may begin as just eating too
little or too much but
obsession with eating and
food over takes over the life
of a person leading to severe
changes.

4. TYPES OF EATING DISORDERS
 Anorexia Nervosa
 Bulimia Nervosa
 Binge Eating Disorder
 Not Otherwise Specified (NOS)

5. ANOREXIA NERVOSA: WHAT IS IT?

6. ANOREXIA NERVOSA:
⚫Anorexia nervosa
happens when one is
obsessed with
becoming thin that
they reach extreme
measures and this
leads to extreme
weight loss.

7. ANOREXIA NERVOSA: WARNING
SIGNS
 Dramatic weight loss
 Refusal to eat certain foods or food categories.
 Consistent excuses to avoid situations involving food
 Excessive and rigid exercise routine
 Withdrawal from usual friends/relatives

8. HEALTH RISKS WITH ANOREXIA
 Heart failure
 Kidney failure
 Low protein stores
 Digestive problems

9. BULIMIA NERVOSA: WHAT IS IT?

10. BULIMIA NERVOSA
⚫ Bulimia Nervosa is an eating
disorder in which one starts to
consume large amounts of
food at once and then is
followed by purging, using
laxatives, or overexercising to
rid themselves of the food
they ate.

11. BULIMIA NERVOSA: WARNING SIGNS
 Wrappers/containers indicating consumption of large
amounts of food
 Frequent trips to bathroom after meals
 Signs of vomiting e.g. staining of teeth, calluses on hands
 Excessive and rigid exercise routine
 Withdrawal from usual friends/relatives

12. HEALTH RISKS WITH BULIMIA
 Dental problems
 Stomach rupture
 Menstruation irregularities

13. BINGE EATING DISORDER: WHAT IS
IT?

14. BINGE EATING DISORDER
 Binge eating is disorder in
which someone eats a lot
amount of food at a time
but they don't vomit.

15. BINGE EATING DISORDER: WARNING
SIGNS
 Wrappers/containers indicating consumption of large
amounts of food
 MAY be overweight for age and height
 MAY have a long history of repeated efforts to diet-feel
desperate about their difficulty to control food intake
 MAY eat throughout the day with no planned mealtimes

16. HEALTH RISKS WITH
BINGE EATING DISORDER
 High blood pressure
 High cholesterol
 Gall bladder disease
 Diabetes
 Heart disease
 Certain types of cancer

17. WHY DO PEOPLE DEVELOP EATING
DISORDERS?
 Behaviors are unhealthy coping mechanisms
 Factors to consider
 Psychological
 Interpersonal
 Social/Cultural
 Biological

18. PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS
 Low self-esteem
 Feelings of inadequacy or failure
 Feeling out of control
 Response to change (puberty)
 Response to stress (sports, dance)
 Personal illness

19. INTERPERSONAL FACTORS
 Troubled family and personal relationships
 Difficulty expressing emotions and feelings
 History of being teased or ridiculed based on
size or weight
 History of physical or sexual abuse

20. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS
 Cultural pressures that glorify thinness and place value
on obtaining the perfect body
 Narrow definitions of beauty that include only women
and men of specific body weights and shapes
 Cultural norms that value people on the basis of physical
appearance and not inner qualities and strengths

21. BIOLOGICAL FACTORS
 Eating disorders often run in families (learn
coping skills and attitudes in family)
 Genetic component—research about brain
and eating in taking place (certain chemicals
in the brain control hunger, appetite and
digestion have been found unbalanced).

22. Q. Eating disorders also related to
psychological cause such as:
A) Low self-esteem
B)Perfectionism
C) Perception
D)All of them

23. Q. Bulimia' involves in symptoms of:
A)Less eating
B)Overeating
C)Dieting
D)Starving

24. Q. Which of the following is not a
common feature of Anorexia
Nervosa?
A. Binge eating
B. Amenorrhoea
C. Self perception of being ‘fat`
D. Under weight