PSYC 3220 Lecture Notes - Childhood Obesity, Dsm-5, Puffy Amiyumi
2 Sep 2014
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Chapter 13 eating disorders and related conditions. How eating patterns develop: normal development, problematic eating habits and picky eating are common in early. ~ children under age 12 are described as picky eaters by their childhood: parents. Taste buds more sensitive in childhood: societal norms and expectations affect girls more than boys, particularly by late childhood and adolescence. Beginning around age 9, girls are more anxious than boys about losing weight. Early parent-child relationship: peter-pan approach don"t eat because you don"t want to grow up. Entering school with its pressure to conform to perceptions of desirable body type. Obesity: ~1/6 children and adolescence (ages 2-19) in north america are obese, childhood obesity: a chronic medical condition characterized by excessive body fat, usually defined in terms of body mass index (a height-to-weight ratio) above the 95th percentile. Age, weight, height, gender = all background factors: severely stigmatized in north america society, and carries many social and health hazards.
