Weight Concerns
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau in Beyond Menopause, 2023
Disordered eating refers to a spectrum of irregular eating behaviors or habits that may or may not signal an actual eating disorder. An eating disorder is a more serious condition that disrupts your life and affects your health in numerous ways. Eating disorders can affect women of all ages and do not spare the aging woman. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating can affect women in midlife and later. What we don’t know is whether older women with an eating disorder suffered from an untreated eating disorder in the past that may have gone into remission and resurfaced later in life, or if the disorder first appeared later in life. We do know that eating disorders have increased to the point that in America, 78% of deaths due to anorexia occur among older adults, not the young.4
Diet and Exercise Approaches for Reversal of Exercise-Associated Menstrual Dysfunction
Henry C. Lukaski in Body Composition, 2017
The most severe forms of disordered eating are the clinical eating disorders: anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), and other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED) (American Psychiatric Association et al. 2013). Key characteristics of these disorders are described in Table 17.3. Clinical eating disorders are more prevalent in female athletes; however, male athletes are still at risk for eating disorders and suboptimal EI (Strother et al. 2012; Sundgot-Borgen et al. 2013; Mountjoy et al. 2014; Joy et al. 2016). Subclinical disordered eating such as cyclic dieting, purging via vomiting or laxative use, binging (i.e., eating large quantities of food at one time), excessive exercise, and rumination (Sundgot-Borgen et al. 2013; Joy et al. 2016) are more common. However, low EI and availability can also occur inadvertently as result of following a healthy diet (Horvath et al. 2000; Stubbs et al. 2004; Cialdella-Kam et al. 2014; Melin et al. 2016; Hand et al. 2016). A high-fiber diet (i.e., high fruit, vegetable, and whole-grains consumption) can lead to early satiety and thus inadvertently lead to suboptimal EI and low EA.
Risky Health Behaviors
Deborah Fish Ragin in Health Psychology, 2017
In this chapter, we explored the definition of risky health behaviors and the factors that shape adverse outcomes associated with these activities. We explained the effects of unintentional, accidental, unplanned, purposeful, environmental, or culturally induced behaviors and psychopathological behaviors on health outcomes. We explored theoretical explanations for risky activities and reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of strategies designed to limit or eliminate such high risks that lead to adverse health outcomes. We included a brief overview of disordered eating and its impact on health outcomes. Although disordered eating may appear to be unrelated to other types of risky health behaviors, we include it here because eating disorders can jeopardize an individual’s physical and psychological outcomes.
Drunkorexia: A new term and diagnostic criteria
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2019
Carly Thompson-Memmer, Tavis Glassman, Aaron Diehr
When discussing alcoholimia, it is important to understand the difference between disordered eating and a clinically diagnosed eating disorder. According to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), disordered eating can be defined as a variety of abnormal eating behaviors that cannot be classified as a specific eating disorder.22 Disordered eating is not a diagnosis, but rather a way of describing a general pattern of eating that deviates from the norm. In contrast, eating disorders are diagnosed according to specific criteria based on severity and frequency of behaviors. Disordered eating can include compensatory efforts such as restricting calories; exercising; purging; or using drugs, laxatives, or diuretics to negate calories consumed from food—or in the case of alcoholimia, calories consumed from alcohol.
Blurred boundaries between Pro-Anorexia and Fitspiration media? Diverging cognitive and emotional effects
Published in Eating Disorders, 2021
Ashley F. Jennings, Hayley LeBlanc, Karli Kisch, Steven Lancaster, Jill Allen
Before exposure, participants answered demographic questionnaires, including the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT; Garner, Olmsted, Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982).1 The 26-item EAT questionnaire contains three subscales: Dieting, Bulimia and food preoccupation, and Oral control. Items are scored from 0 to 3, with a score of zero representing “Never”, and a score of three representing “Always” (α = .90). Disordered eating within the past 6 months was operationalized by behavioral indicators: at least one instance of binging, purging, taking pills (e.g., laxatives or diuretic “water” pills) to control shape or weight, or treatment for ED (0 = no, 1 = yes). In our sample, 28 participants (21.7%) screened positive for disordered eating within the past 6 months. Participants viewed the assigned blog for 15 minutes and then free-wrote responses to two prompts: “Please describe the thoughts you had while viewing the website” and “Please describe the content that will stick with you the longest.”
Collegiate recovery programs and disordered eating: exploring subclinical behaviors among students in recovery
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2019
Robert D. Ashford, Bethany Wheeler, Austin M. Brown
Disordered eating is a known risk factor for the development of eating disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2006). However, many DE behaviors have become normalized within our society and, thus, has affected the ability to appropriately identify them as problematic or disordered (Pereira & Alvarenga, 2007). Such behaviors include fear of being overweight or gaining weight, preoccupation with body weight and/or body composition, feeling guilty after eating, feeling out of control when around food and/or eating, and using exercise to compensate for food consumption and dieting. These are important to be mindful of because using exercise as a compensatory mechanism is associated with an increase in eating disorder development among college students (Schaumberg, Anderson, Reilly, & Anderson, 2014).
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