PSYC 3406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dental Caries, Bloating, Physical Abuse
6 Jun 2018
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● Over ½ of teenage girls and ⅓ of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors
such as skipping meals, using laxatives, smoking, fasting, vomiting
● 42% of 1st to 3rd grade girls want to be thinner
● 81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat
● The average woman is 5’4” and weighs 140 lbs. The average supermodel is 5’11” and
weighs 117 lbs.
● Americans spend over $40 billion on dieting and diet related products each year
Anorexia Nervosa
● Description
○ Excessive weight loss
○ Self starvation
○ Preoccupation with foods, progressive restrictions against categories of foods
○ Anxiety about gaining weight
○ Denial of hunger
○ Consistent excuses to avoid meals
○ Excessive exercise to burn calories
○ Social withdrawal (from friends)
● Symptoms
○ Resistance to maintaining body weight at or above normal weight
○ Intense fear of being fat even though underweight
○ Disturbance in experience of body weight or shape on self evaluation
○ Loss of menstrual periods in girls and women post-puberty
■ Loss of menarche
○ Lanugo
● What do counselors look for?
○ Rapid loss of weight
○ Change in eating habits
○ Social withdrawal
○ Peach fuzz
○ Hair loss or dry skin
○ Extreme concern about appearance or dieting
● Age Range
○ Most cases are in women ranging from early teens to mid twenties
○ Recently have been more cases of people in 30’s and 40’s suffering from any
eating disorder
○ 40% of newly identified cases in girls 15-19
○ Increase in women 15-24
● Prevalence in Population
○ .5%-1% of women from late adolescence to early adulthood meet the full criteria
for anorexia
○ Even more are diagnosed under a subthreshold
○ Limited data on males with anorexia
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Document Summary
Over of teenage girls and of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, using laxatives, smoking, fasting, vomiting. 42% of 1st to 3rd grade girls want to be thinner. 81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat. The average woman is 5"4 and weighs 140 lbs. The average supermodel is 5"11 and weighs 117 lbs. Americans spend over billion on dieting and diet related products each year. Preoccupation with foods, progressive restrictions against categories of foods. Intense fear of being fat even though underweight. Resistance to maintaining body weight at or above normal weight. Disturbance in experience of body weight or shape on self evaluation. Loss of menstrual periods in girls and women post-puberty. Most cases are in women ranging from early teens to mid twenties. Recently have been more cases of people in 30"s and 40"s suffering from any eating disorder. 40% of newly identified cases in girls 15-19.
