IPHY 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Myocardial Infarction, Osteoporosis, Peripheral Edema
6 Mar 2016
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Clinical nutrition- can look at a person and can see what disease they have. Take home: eating disorders aren"t about food, it is about control. Anorexia nervosa: refusal to eat or denial of hunger (characterizes the disease, intense fear to gain weight, preoccupation with food (know exact calories, thin appearance (clinical ability to see this, fat is minimal) Binging: eating thousands of calories in a short amount of time to release endorphins. Endorphins calm you down and makes you realize what you have eaten initiates purging stage. Purging: throwing up before food is absorbed: lack of control while eating, a bulimic can maintain normal body weight or gain weight, compensatory behaivors: Combined practices: people combine bad habits overeat, over exercise, binge/purge. Other issues: binge eating (without purge) Eat and absorb all the calories massive weight gain: body dysmorphia disorder. When you see your body differently and is social demobilizing: depression, adhd, ocd, substance abuse co occur, drunkorexia.
