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Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders. Different Types Include: Anorexia Bulimia Not otherwise Specified. Who has eating disorders?. Adolescents. Anorexia is the 3rd most common chronic illness among adolescents . Women. Two to three in 100 American women suffers from bulimia.

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Eating Disorders

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  1. Eating Disorders • Different Types Include: • Anorexia • Bulimia • Not otherwise Specified

  2. Who has eating disorders?

  3. Adolescents • Anorexia is the 3rd most common chronic illness among adolescents

  4. Women • Two to three in 100 American women suffers from bulimia

  5. One in 200 American women suffers from anorexia

  6. Approximately 80% of women want to lose weight

  7. Men • Females are much more likely than males to develop an eating disorder. • Although more prevalent in women there is still an estimated 5 to 15 percent of people with anorexia or bulimia and an estimated 35 percent of those with binge-eating disorder are male.

  8. It is estimated that 8 million Americans have an eating disorder – seven million women and one million men

  9. Celebrities

  10. Even children..

  11. 40% of nine year olds have already dieted and we are beginning to see four and five year olds expressing the need to diet

  12. In a home where physical or sexual abuse is taking place, the child may turn to an eating disorder to gain a sense of control.

  13. If children can't control what is happening to their bodies during the abuse, they feel a sense of control regarding their food intake or their weight.

  14. Self imposed starvation may also be their way of trying to disappear so they no longer have to suffer through the abuse.

  15. 20% of people suffering from anorexia will prematurely die from complications related to their eating disorder, including suicide and heart problems

  16. A study by the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders reported that 5 – 10% of anorexics die within 10 years after contracting the disease

  17. 18-20% of anorexics will be dead after 20 years and only 30 – 40% ever fully recover

  18. Eating disorders are serious. They should not ever be over looked.

  19. Many people experience a body image distortion that they cannot control.

  20. Eating Disorders are not the fault of the individual . It is like any other disorder that can become out of control.

  21. http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/anorexia/statistics.htm • http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-count-mental-disorders-in-america/index.shtml#Eating • http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/health/whp/whp_fact2.html

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