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Eating disorders:
# Anorexia Nervosa
# Bulimia Nervosa
# Binge eating
# Orthorexia Nervosa
# Compulsive exercising
# Night-eating syndrome
# EDNOS (eating disorder not other specified)
ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder and a mental health condition.
People who have anorexia have problems with eating. They are very anxious about their weight. They keep it as low as possible, by strictly controlling and limiting what they eat.
They starve themselves to lose weight because they:
* think they are fat or overweight,
* have a very strong fear of being fat, or
* want to be thin.
Even if they are already very thin and underweight, they continue to want to lose weight.
People with anorexia are obsessed with food, eating and calories. Sometimes they try to get rid of food from their body, for example, by making themselves vomit.
BULIMIA NERVOSA
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating, followed by compensatory behaviors, referred to as “purging”. The most common form—practiced more than 75% of people with bulimia nervosa—is self-induced vomiting; fasting, the use of laxatives, enemas, diuretics, and overexercising are also common.
BINGE EATING
Binge eaters often eat until they are uncomfortably full. In this sense, the disorder is similar to bulimia nervosa, another eating disorder in which large quantities of food are consumed rapidly. However, bulimics then purge the food they have eaten through self-induced vomiting or by taking laxatives. People who binge eat do not purge themselves, and feel ashamed of their behaviour whether overweight or not.
Binge eating is a mental disorder, but it is also triggered by the effect that overeating has on the body. Binge eating causes a surge of blood glucose, which stimulates the pancreas into producing insulin – a hormone naturally produced by the body to regulate the amount of glucose in the blood. This means that after the initial high, blood sugar levels actually fall rapidly, which sends a false message to the brain that we need more food in order to top up glucose levels. Cravings for sugary foods that will provide a quick glucose fix continue, and binge eaters may therefore consume large quantities of food even when not hungry.
ORTHOREXIA NERVOSA
Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa is a term coined by Steven Bratman, a Colorado MD, to denote an eating disorder characterized by excessive focus on eating healthy foods. In rare cases, this focus may turn into a fixation so extreme that it can lead to severe malnutrition or even death.
COMPULSIVE EXERCISING
Compulsive exercise (also called obligatory exercise and anorexia athletica) is best defined by an exercise addict’s frame of mind: He or she no longer chooses to exercise but feels compelled to do so and struggles with guilt and anxiety if he or she doesn’t work out. Injury, illness, an outing with friends, bad weather — none of these will deter those who compulsively exercise. In a sense, exercising takes over a compulsive exerciser’s life because he or she plans life around it.
NIGHT EATING SYNDROME
A relatively new eating disorder, “night-eating syndrome,” characterized by a lack of appetite in the morning & overeating at night with agitation & insomnia has been reported in a new study. “Not only is night-eating syndrome an eating disorder, but one of mood & sleep as well,” said study author Albert Stunkard, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania’s Weight & Eating Disorders Program. “People who fall prey to this syndrome are not simply indulging in a bad habit. They have a real clinical illness, reflected by changes in hormone levels.”
EDNOS
This category is frequently used for people who meet some, but not all, of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. For example, a person who shows almost all of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa, but who still has a normal menstrual cycle and/or body mass index, can be diagnosed with EDNOS. A sufferer may experience episodes of binging and purging, but may not do so frequently enough to warrant a diagnosis of bulimia nervosa. A person may also engage in binging episodes without the use of inappropriate compensatory behaviors; this is referred to as binge eating disorder.
People diagnosed with EDNOS may frequently switch between different eating disorders, or may with time fit all diagnostic criteria for anorexia or bulimia.
People who eat a normal amount of food, but become exceedingly obsessed with healthy eating, or strictly categorize normal foods or entire food groups as “safe” and “off-limits”, may be referred to as having orthorexia. However, this diagnosis is not formally accepted by the psychiatric community.
I should have added, there are obviously more eating disorders than this, not all focusing on the problem of restricting their intake, i.e. someone on Y!A recently asked if she had an eating disorder because she has a problem with swallowing because of a choking incident that happened when she was younger and it now affects her eating. This is an eating disorder, not a typical one, but an eating disorder all the same, her eating is disordered, everything has to be mashed or blended for it to be swallowed, but she will eat, she has no problem with calories or weight, just swallowing. It’s still an eating disorder.
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*Spitorexia – ( Where people chew their food and spit it back out &dont swallow it)
*C.O.D (compulsive overeating disorder)
*Binge eating
*Orthorexia Nervosa
*Compulsive exercising
*Night-eating syndrome
*EDNOS (eating disorder not other specified)
There is pradawilly syndrome were you never feel full and you end up eatingingyour self to death because you never feel full its very dangerous and can couse stress hair loss excema Athena and depression. Hope this infomation was helpfull, and good luck with your project.
C.O.D (compulsive overeating disorder)
EDNOS (eating disorder not otherwise specified)
They are the only ones I know sorry.
EDNOS – Eating Disoder Not Otherwise Specified.
food addiction? sugar addiction?
cheese phobia, excessive cake eating syndrome.
For the lard buckets it is piggorexia !
overeating can be too
theres one where you eat at night while sleeping, nightime eating disorder perhaps. search it
I guess you missed BODY IMAGE.
Most women wants and dreams to have a sexy image and this is actually the reality. They want their body image to be recognized anywhere they go especially to catch the attention of men.
People with depressing body image have a greater chance of developing an eating disorder and are more likely to suffer from feelings of depression, isolation, low self-esteem, and obsessions with weight loss.
We all may have our days when we feel self-conscious or uncomfortable in our bodies, but the key to developing positive body image is to recognize and respect our natural shape and learn to overpower those negative thoughts and feelings with positive, affirming, and accepting ones.
some people will only eat the same food day in day out and they arent all Republicans
There’s emotional eating, night time eating, stress eating, comfort eating, and others.