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2. Nutrition Education

3. Eating Disorder Treatment

   1. Anorexia Nervosa
   2. Bulimia Nervosa
   3. Compulsive Overeating
      and Other Similar Eating Disorders
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Anorexia Nervosa (AN)

Symptoms/Signs

• Refusal to maintain a normal bodyweight (less than 85% of appropriate weight for height).
• Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight.
• Body weight heavily influences one’s self-evaluation.
• Absence of at least 3 consecutive menstrual cycles (amenorrhea). Prescribed hormones (i.e., birth control pills) can mask this.
• RESTRICTING TYPE — The person does not engage in binge eating or purging (self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives). Starvation is the primary behavior.
• BINGE/PURGE TYPE — In addition to periods of starvation, the person has regularly engaged in binge eating or purging behaviors (self-induced vomiting and/or misuse of laxatives). This is often misunderstood as a person having both anorexia and bulimia.
  
  American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2000).

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