Class 9 (3/4/21) - eating disorder

Question 1

Eating disorders

Answer 1

• Eating disorders are mental illnesses that cause serious disturbances in a person’s everyday diet.
• It can manifest as eating extremely small
  amounts of food or severely overeating.
• The condition may begin as just eating too little or too much but obsession with eating and food takes over the life of a person leading to severe changes.

Question 2

ANOREXIA NERVOSA

Answer 2

• happens when one is obsessed with becoming thin that they reach extreme measures and this leads to extreme weight loss.

Question 3

Warning signs of anorexia nervosa

Answer 3

1. Dramatic weight loss
2. Refusal to eat certain foods or food categories.
3. Consistent excuses to avoid situations involving food
4. Excessive and rigid exercise routine

Question 4

Health risks with anorexia nervosa

Answer 4

Heart failure
Kidney failure
Low protein stores
Digestive problems

Question 5

BULIMIA NERVOSA

Answer 5

An eating disorder in which one starts to consume large amounts of food at once and then is followed by purging, using laxatives, or overexercising to rid themselves of the food they ate.

Question 6

BULIMIA NERVOSA: WARNING SIGNS

Answer 6

Wrappers/containers indicating consumption of large amounts of food
Frequent trips to bathroom after meals
Signs of vomiting e.g. staining of teeth
Excessive and rigid exercise routine

Question 7

health risks with bulimia nervosa

Answer 7

Dental problems
Stomach rupture
Menstruation irregularities

Question 8

BINGE EATING DISORDER

Answer 8

Binge eating is disorder in which someone eats a lot amount of food at a time but they DO NOT vomit.

Question 9

BINGE EATING DISORDER: WARNING SIGNS

Answer 9

Wrappers/containers indicating consumption of large amounts of food
MAY be overweight for age and height
MAY have a long history of repeated efforts to diet
feel desperate about their difficulty to control food intake
MAY eat throughout the day with no planned mealtimes

Question 10

HEALTH RISKS WITH BINGE EATING DISORDER

Answer 10

High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Gall bladder disease
Diabetes
Heart disease
Certain types of cancer

Question 11

Obesity

Answer 11

Underweight: lower than 18.5
Optimal: 18.5 - 25
Overweight: 25 - 30
Obese: over 30

Question 12

BMI

Answer 12

Body mass index is a value derived from the mass and height of a person.
= The BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and is universally expressed in units of kg/m², resulting from mass in kilograms and height in meters.

Question 13

What are the causes of obesity ?

Answer 13

• Inactivity: without activity you don’t burn as much calories and you need to have more exercise to burn the excessive calories.
• Diets: some bad eating habits like high calories diets epically in the
  night, or skipping a healthy breakfast, and replace it by junk fast food,
  all of that increase the body fat .

Question 14

Causes of obesity

Answer 14

Lack of sleep: this cause disturbances in the body hormones, and increase the appetite. you also may crave to high calories food.

Drugs: some medications lead the body to gain more weight, these drugs include, diabetes medications, steroids and beta blockers, antiseizure medications, antipsychotic medications and antidepressants drugs.

Medical conditions: some diseases and syndromes lead the body to
store more fat and gain weight like Cushing syndrome. some disease lower the metabolic rate in the body and lower the amount of burned calories every day such as the hypothyroidism. And some diseases
lead the patient to lower his activity, such as the arthritis or maybe the patients with paraplegia.

Genetics: genes affect the amount of body fat we store and where to store.

Family lifestyle: not because of the genes we find the obesity runs in the families, it also because of their life style and the food they eat. We can notice that some countries such as USA, have more obese people than others countries like Japan and this is because the culture and the life style.

Age: obesity could occur at any age, but when we get age we lose more amount of muscles built. more amount of muscles give higher rate of metabolism and calories burning. When we lose them we reduce the calories burning and tend to fill the body with fat.

Question 15

Complications of obesity

Answer 15

• Type 2 diabetes.
• High blood pressure.
• Stroke
• Heart disease.
• Gallbladder disease.
• Osteoarthritis.
• poor wound healing.
• Sleep apnea,( dangerous sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts).
• High cholesterol and triglycerides.
• Metabolic syndrome.
• Cancer.
• Depression.

Question 16

Prevention of obesity

Answer 16

• More exercise: 150 to 250 minutes of moderate intensity activity every week is helpful to keep you away from obesity, and these activities such as fast walking and swimming.
• Eat healthy: low calorie and fibers rich food such as fruits, vegetables are good food to have every day, but saturated fats and sweets and alcohol are extremely bad , they increase your body weight, and
  threaten your health.
• Monitor your weight: monitoring your weigh and calculating your body mass index will be very helpful to know how your prevention plan work.