The document discusses body image, eating disorders, and fad diets. It defines key terms like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Poor body image and influences like the media can lead to unhealthy eating behaviors and potential eating disorders. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that involve extreme and dangerous eating habits. They require medical treatment to address the underlying psychological and physical health issues.

1. Body Image and Eating
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2. Poor body image may lead to
unhealthful and harmful eating
behaviors.

3. body image
fad diets
weight cycling
eating disorders
anorexia nervosa
bulimia nervosa
binge eating disorder

4. Your Body Image
The media and other influences can affect
your body image.
Try to accept yourself the way you are.

5. Your Body Image
When you look in the mirror, do you like what
you see? If the answer is yes, that means that
your body image is positive.
Body image
The way you see
your body

6. Your Body Image
Peers and media
images can influence
body image.
Images shown in the
media aren’t always
realistic.

7. Accepting Yourself
Physical Change Affect
Growth Spurts May cause some teens to look thin.
May cause other Hormonal Changes teens to gain weight.

8. Fad Diets
Fad diets are neither safe nor reliable ways to
lose weight.
People on fad diets may lose weight
temporarily, but they usually regain it after going
off the diet.

9. Fad Diets
Teens who want to lose weight may be tempted to
try fad diets that promise quick, easy weight loss.
Fad diets
Weight-loss plans that tend
to be popular for only a
short time

10. Fad Diets
People who follow fad diets may fall into weight
cycling.
Weight cycling
A repeated pattern of losing and
regaining body weight

11. Types of Fad Diets
Miracle Foods
Types of Fad
Diets
Magic
Combinations
Fasting
Diet Pills Liquid Diets

12. Recognizing Fad Diets
Any diet plan that does
not follow the
MyPyramid guidelines
may deprive your body
of nutrients.

13. Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are extreme and dangerous
eating behaviors that require medical
attention.
Eating disorders are classified as mental
illnesses.

14. Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are often linked to depression,
low self-esteem, or troubled personal relationships.
Eating disorders
Extreme, harmful eating
behaviors that can cause serious
illness or even death

15. Eating Disorders
Social and cultural forces that emphasize physical
appearance can play a role in eating disorders.
Research also suggests that genetics may be a
factor in the development of eating disorders.

16. Anorexia Nervosa
People with anorexia nervosa see themselves
unrealistically as overweight even when they are
dangerously thin.
Anorexia nervosa
An eating disorder in which an irrational
fear of weight gain leads people to
starve themselves

17. Anorexia Nervosa
People with anorexia
develop obsessive
behaviors related to food,
such as:
avoiding food and meals
eating only a few kinds of
food in small amounts
weighing or counting the
calories in everything they eat
exercising excessively
weighing themselves
repeatedly

18. Anorexia Nervosa
Possible health
consequences
Brittle bones
Drop in body
temperature, heart rate,
and blood pressure
Reduction in organ
size
Heart problems and
sudden cardiac death

19. Bulimia Nervosa
People with bulimia nervosa regularly binge
then purge.
Bulimia nervosa
An eating disorder that involves cycles
of overeating and purging, or attempts
to rid the body of food

20. Bulimia Nervosa
Binging is eating a huge amount of food in a single
sitting.
Purging is forcing vomiting, taking laxatives to flush
food out of the system, or fasting or exercising
frantically after a binge.

21. Bulimia Nervosa
Possible health
consequences
Dehydration
Sore and inflamed
throat
Swollen glands
Damaged teeth
Damage to the stomach,
intestines, or kidneys
Irregular heart rhythms,
heart failure, and death

22. Binge Eating Disorder
People with binge eating disorder do not purge.
Binge eating disorder
an eating disorder in which people
overeat compulsively

23. Binge Eating Disorder
Consequences of binge eating disorder include:
Becoming
overweight or
obese
Developing the
health problems
associated with
obesity

24. Seeking Help
Eating disorders are serious illnesses that require
medical help.
Medical help may involve counseling, nutritional
guidance, a doctor’s care, and, in extreme cases, a
hospital stay.

25. Seeking Help
If you think that you or someone you know may
have an eating disorder, talk to a trusted adult,
such as a parent, counselor, or school nurse.

26. After You Read
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
1. List two factors that influence body
image.
Any two: Insecurity about physical changes
during adolescence, images in the media,
attitudes of friends and family

27. After You Read
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
2. Define fad diets.
Fad diets are weight-loss plans that tend to
be popular for only a short time.

28. After You Read
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
3. List three types of eating disorders.
Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge
eating disorder