BIO 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Extreme Weight Loss, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorder
24 Dec 2020
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From an early age, we link food with personal and emotional experiences. Food can be used as a reward or bribe by parents. Food becomes something other than the nutrients they contain. Carried to extremes, this can lead to disordered eating. In time of stress, people can turn to food. Disordered eating: mild and short term changes in eating patterns that occur in response to a stressful event, or a desire to modify the diet for health or personal appearance reasons. If the disordered eating becomes sustained, distressing or interferes with everyday activities and linked to physiological changes, it may require professional intervention. At some point, disordered eating may become an eating disorder. 5 million north americans have an eating disorder. Females outnumber male 5:1 it frequently develops during adolescence or early adulthood frequently co-occur with other psychological disorders such as depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders.
