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Summary anorexia
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ANOREXIA:Psychological disorder- loss of appetite
Slimming disease
Voluntary starvation emaciation
Low BMI
Obsessive about weight loss and weight loss of viewed as a sign of
achievement and self – discipline
Weight gain= loss of self- control
Usually affect women and begins during adolescence and early
adulthood
Not really about food but emotional issues
Definition: A condition of voluntary starvation and emaciation. Obsessive
about weight loss and weight loss is seen as a sign of achievement and
self-discipline.
Anorexic behavior and characteristics:
1. Weight loss due to:
( leading to a loss of 85% of normal weight for the persons age and
height)
Vomiting –food leaves the body before it has been digested and
height
Laxatives
Diet pills
Starvation
Excessive exercise
Weighing kilojoules
Secrecy and denial
Restricted food intake
2. Distorted body image:
Think they are fat and see themselves as fat
Wear baggy clothes
Intense fear of gaining weight
Refusal to eat
Lying about amount of food consumed
, 3. Act Differently
Moody or depressed
Not sociable
Refusal to eat
Irritable
Lack of emotion
Hunger denial
Obsessive about food and weigh themselves continuously
3. Signs and symptoms
Dry brittle skin and hair excessive weightless=excessive thinness
Abnormal blood count = dizziness and fainting
Low blood pressure
Irregular heart beat
Sleeplessness=fatigue
Fingers turn blue = sensitivity to cold
Fine downy hair develops on the body: lanugo
Cold feet and hands
Heart problems
Constipation
Osteoporosis
Dental problems
Dehydration
Amenorrhea- missing at least three consecutive periods which can
in the long term lead to infertility and osteoporosis due to lack of
estrogen levels
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL
GENETIC Obsessive-compulsive Society emphasise the
PREDISPOSITION some personality able to importance of a thin
people may have a stick to a strict diet & body.
genetic tendency refuse food even when
towards perfectionism, hungry. Media constantly uses
sensitivity & thin models / actresses
perseverance. Extreme perfectionist / actors.
= never believe they
Serotonin (chemical are thin enough. Success & self-worth
substance often equated with
in the brain) may play Have a poor self- thinness.
a role – image – low self-
depression. esteem. Peer pressure can
encourage the desire
to be thin.
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