NUTR 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Vitamin A, Bulimia Nervosa, Golden Rice
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Over of teenage girls and 1/3 teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, smoking, fasting, vomiting, or taking laxatives. Preoccupation with foods, progressing restrictions against whole categories of. Anxiety about gaining weight or being fat. Excessive, rigid exercise regimen burn off calories. Can have hair loss or dry skin. Prevalence in population: . 5-1% of women from late adolescence to early. Even more are diagnosed under a subthreshold. Limited data on number of males with anorexia. 10 millions diagnosed with an eating disorder of some type. Health consequences: slow heart rate, low blood pressure- heart muscle changing, reduction of bone density, muscle loss and weakness, severe dehydration, kidney failure, fainting, dry hair and skin, hair loss adulthood. Eating large amounts of food uncontrollably (binging) Vomiting, using laxatives or other methods to eliminate food (purging) Unusual dental problems, swollen cheeks, glands, heartburn, bloating. Health consequences: electrolyte imbalance irregular heartbeats, heart failure, death.
