Grades 6, 7 and 8 - Science - Middle School - Health - Eating Disorders — Flashcards

Eating disorders are then borne out of extreme emotions, attitudes and behaviors surrounding weight.  How a person reacts in attacking their own bodies is done in a number of different ways that can include becoming anorexic, bulimic or a binge eater.  There are several other forms of eating disorders but for this quiz, we will focus on these three.

3 Types of Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa: This is an eating disorder where a person literally stops eating so that they starve themselves.

Bulimia Nervosa: This is an eating disorder where a person will eat a large amount of food in one sitting and then immediately force themselves to throw it all up.  They are extremely secretive about their eating so will often wait until they are completely alone before consuming any food.  Unlike the anorexic that has grown to “hate” food, the bulimic loves food but hates the end result of food, i.e., the weight gain that comes with it.  So they “enjoy” their food in excessive quantities and then regurgitate it all so as to not experience any weight gain.

Binge Eating: This is an eating disorder where a person will eat a large amount of food in a relatively short period of time but does not do anything to get rid of the food that they have eaten.  Rather, they will then go for a long period of time not eating much of anything (which can be days or even weeks) until the next binge hits.  It is a cycle of feast and starvation, feast and starvation, feast and starvation.