Eating Disorders

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Eating Disorders
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Body Image Survey DIRECTIONS

• First look at the drawings for your gender,
  choose the number below the figure that best
  illustrates (A) how you think you currently look
  (that is, the figure that best represents your
  actual size).
• Then choose the figure that illustrates (B) how
  you would like to look (your ideal figure).
• Choose what you think is attractive for the
  opposite sex.
• Choose what you think the opposite sex would
  choose as attractive for your gender.
• The numerical difference between your views of
  how you think you look and how you would like to
  look (A - B) represents your self-ideal
  discrepancy.
• Finally, rate how ashamed you are of any body
  image discrepancy from 0 (not at all) to 5
  (extremely). If you have a shame score of 3 or
  more, you should consider talking to a close
  friend or counselor about these feelings.

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Body Image Survey
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Women Body Images
Many U.S. women students tend to idealizeand
misperceive men as idealizinga body shape
considerably thinner than their actual shape
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Mens Womens Body Images
According to surveys on body image, people in our
society are much more dissatisfied with their
bodies now than they were a generation ago. Women
are still more dissatisfied than men, but todays
men are more dissatisfied with their bodies than
the men of a generation past.
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Eating Disorders

• Anorexia nervosacharacterized by excessive
  weight loss, irrational fear of gaining weight
  and distorted body image
• Bulimia nervosacharacterized by binges of
  extreme overeating followed by self-induced
  purging such as vomiting, laxatives
• Binge-eatingdisorder characterized by recurring
  episodes of binge eating without purging.

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Anorexia NervosaKey Features

• Refusal to maintain a normal body weight
• Intensely afraid of being overweight.
• Suffer from delusions of being overweight.
• Denies there is a problem.
• Usually in adolescent females
• May put themselves on self-starvation regimens
• May become dangerously underweight

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Bulimia Nervosa

• An eating disorder characterized by episodes of
  overeating (usually high calorie foods)
• Overeating is followed by vomiting, using
  laxatives, fasting, or excessive exercise
• Usually stay within their normal weight.
• Usually recognize they have an eating disorder.

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PicaStrange but True!

• Hippocrates the first to describe the disorder
• People display a compulsive craving for inedible
  substances such as clay, dirt, laundry starch,
  chalk, buttons, paper, dried paint, burnt
  matches, ashes, sand, oyster shells or broken
  crockery.
• Seen most often in pregnant women or nursing
  women but also with people with severe mental
  disorders.
• Could be a behavioral response to stress.