Trabajo de alumnos del INSTITUTO SUMMA en la materia INGLÉS.

1. HEALTH:
Eating disorders

2. What is an eating
disorder?
Eating disorders are conditions
defined by anormal eating habits,
inculde extreme emotions,
attitude, and behaviour
surrounding weigth and food
issues, they are serious emotional
and physical problems.

3. TYPES OF EATING DISORDERS AND THEIR SYMPTOMS
Anorexia nervosa:
People with anorexia
nervosa often also limit
or restrict other parts
of their lives besides
food, including
relationships, social
activities, or pleasure.
They have intense fear
of weigth gain and
inability to appreciate
the severity of the
situation.

4. Bulimia Nervosa:
 Frequent episodes of consuming very large
amount of food but without behaviors to
prevent weigth gain, such as self introduced
vomiting
 A feeling of being out of control during the
binge-eating episodes
If left untreated, bulimia nervosa can lead to
serious and even life-threatening problems,
such as depression, anxiety disorders, heart
damage, kidny, injury to all parts of the
digestive system, and severe dental damage.

5.  Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders:
• Examples of OSFED Include:
• Atypical anorexia nervosa (weight is not below
normal)
• Bulimia nervosa (with less frequent behaviors)
• Binge-eating disorder (with less frequent
occurrences)
• Purging disorder (purging without binge eating)
• Night eating syndrome (excessive nighttime
food consumption)

6. Obesity:
Obesity is one of
our nation's
most critical
health problems.
Appropriate
treatment not
only improves
individuals'
quality of life, it
can save lives.

7. Facts of eating disorders
• 0% of women who answered a People magazine survey
responded that images of women on television and in the
movies make them feel insecure.
• In one study, three out of four women stated that they
were overweight although only one out of four actually
were.
• The dieting industry is the only business in the world that
has a 98% failure rate.
• One half of 4th grade8 girls are on a diet.
• A study found that adolescent girls were more fearful of
gaining weight than getting cancer, nuclear war or losing
their parents.
• Some of the pictures of the models in magazines do not
really exist. The pictures are computer-modified
compilations of different body parts