WHAT IS AN EATING DISORDER?

TYPES OF EATING DISORDERS

• Anaorexia Nervosa
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Binge Eating Disorder

ANOREXIA NERVOSA

• Makes people loose more weight than considered healthy
• Lack of menstruation among girls and women
• Characterized: extreme thinness
• intense fear of gaining weight

BULIMIA NERVOSA

• Illness causing overeating & loss of control
• Leads to behaviors like excessive exercising
• Also causes you to feel unwanted with bodyweight
• BING EATING DISORDERS.....
• eating more than you should in short periods of time

POSSIBLE CURES

• THERE ARE PLENTY OF METHODS TO HELP
• psychotherapy: the core of all eating-disorders treatment
• medications may help
• there are multiple challenges to curing it though