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The term is based on the Greek orthos for correct, and the Greek orexis for appetite. It was coined by Colorado medical Dr. Steven L. Bratman, who applies the term to patients who are obsessed with eating only healthy foods. It may lead to the emaciation that characterizes anorexia nervosa [without appetite]. For the patient may go through the psychological distress, and incur the physical dangers, of the anorexic. But the motivation differs. The orthorexic seeks health and internal purity through avoiding foods whose ingredients are seen as unhealthy, such as animal products, fats, and perservatives. The anorexic seeks weight loss. The one wants to be as healthy as possible, the other as thin as possible.
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What kind of eating disorder is it when you starve yourself?
Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder in which the person becomes increasingly underweight by self-starvation or extreme cutting-down of food intake. Bulimia Nervosa is when the person will eat or binge, then purge to ensure the contents of the food does not affect their weight. Both of these are very serious diseases and are more so mental issues than physical. In other words, mental-issues are the cause and physical-issues are the effect.
True or false the eating disoder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss is called bulimia nervosa?
That one is called anorexia nervosa. Bulimia involves the use of vomiting and/or laxatives to purge the food, though it is possible to be both anorexic and bulimic. Note that most bulimics appear to have normal weights, as they do not usually restrict the food to the extent that anorexics will.
What kind of eating disorder did Elton John have?
Bulmia
What is the causes for eating disorder?
it depends on what kind of eating disorder. sometimes depression or maybe other people telling you you're fat
What is call an eating disorder in which a person has difficulty controlling how much food he or she?
A person which has difficulty controlling how much food he or she eats may suffer from Binge Eating Disorder (BED), Compulsive Overeating (COE) or bulimia nervosa (BN). In the latter case, the individual will engage in some kind of compensatory purgative activity; i.e., vomiting after eating, or taking laxatives, or over-exercising to burn off the excess calories consumed.
What kind of eating disorder do you have if you cut up and don't eat your food?
Anorexia, we did this in school.
What kind of eating disorder do you have if you skip meals on purpose exercise constaly and alwas watching your weight?
anorexia
Is Mischa Barton anorexic?
For a long time it was rumored that she had an eating disorder of some kind, but it was never confirmed.
Is bulimia nervosa another term for a binge eating disorder?
No. Bulimia it self is a eating disorder, while the symptoms are the same. They both usually starve themselves, but if a bulimic eats one or a few more bites of something, he/she will go and purposefully make themselves vomit.
Of 100 people how many develop eating disorders?
0.5 The common statistic is that 1 in every 200 will develop on eating disorder of some kind. (Anorexia, Bulimia, EDNOS, Binge-Eating, Compulsive Eating, Over-Eating, ect.)
You were in a fight with two of your girlfriends and you called one of them a tall fatso and the other a short fatso will they get eating disorders from this comment?
well yes its possible to establish a eating disorder from that kind of comment
What kind of eating disorder is more likely to affect men than women?
Muscle dysmorphia. But men do get other eating disorders as well, it's just that the amount of women is more.
