PSYC 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Binge Eating, Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa
6 Oct 2020
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Anorexia nervosa an eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15 % or more) underweight. Feel fat, fear being fat, obsessed with losing weight. Bulimia nervosa an eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating (usually of high-calorie foods) with purging (by vomiting of laxative use), excessive exercise, or fasting. Triggered by weight-loss diet, broken by gorging on forbidden foods. Binge-purge eaters eat in spurts, often influenced by friends who are bingeing. Cycle of repeating episodes overeating, compensatory purging, fasting, or. Preoccupied with food and fearful of becoming overweight. Experience bouts of depression and anxiety during and after binges. Marked by weight fluctuations within or above normal ranges excessive exercise. Binge-eating disorder significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging or fasting that marks bulimia nervosa. Family environment that may produce eating disorders weight/appearance.
