IPHY 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Female Athlete Triad, Peripheral Edema, Lanugo
6 Mar 2016
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Clinical nutrition can look at a person and can see what disease they have. Use food as a way of control when their life feels out of control. Happens when there are things that are out of control happening like divorce, rape, abuse . Will know exactly how many calories in a piece of food. Binging: eating thousands of calories in a short amount of time. So much food so the fat and sugar go to brain and brain releases endorphins and calms them down. Calmness causes them to realize everything they have eaten > initiates purge cycle. Purging: throwing up before food is absorbed by body. Lack of control while eating/eating to the point of discomfort or pain. When you see your body different than other people do. Hard on body because no nutrients on empty stomach. Liquor is very sugary on the stomach, high glycemic index.
