A group of mental disorders characterized by marked disturbance in eating behavior. In dsm-iv-tr, this category includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and eating disorder not otherwise specified.
Marked disturbance in eating behavior. In DSM-lII-R, eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia, pica, and rumination disorder of infancy.
Disturbances of eating habits or weight- control behavior that can result in significant impairment of physical health or psychosocial functioning.
Conditions that include abnormal fears regarding eating, significant weight loss from not eating or from regurgitating food, binge eating, and eating nonnutritive substances, anorexia nervosa; bulimia.
An illness that causes the usual pattern of eating to be disturbed, e.g. anorexia or bulimia.
Eating behavior that leads to disease or disability, including any eating pattern that deviates from the cultural norm. The most common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and compulsive overeating.
Eating disorders are among the most concerning psychological disorders that affect athletes, particularly young women. An eating disorder may be defined as a persistent disturbance of eating behavior intended to control weight that significantly impairs physical and psychological functioning. Eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other disordered eating behaviors that include weight control behaviors as well as subclinical eating disorders. Subclinical eating disorders or disordered eating behaviors include symptoms of eating disorders and serious body weight concerns, but fail to reach the strict diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria. A position stand by the American College of Sports Medicine defined disordered eating behaviors as “A wide spectrum of harmful and often ineffective eating behaviors used in attempts to lose weight or achieve a lean appearance. The spectrum of behaviors ranges in severity from restricting food intake to binge and purging, to the DSM-IV defined disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.” The DSM-IV reports that at least 90% of individuals suffering from eating disorders are women; while males represent less than 10% of all cases.
A group of mental disorders, a psychiatric classification including anorexia nervosa, bulimia, pica, and rumination disorder of infancy.
Serious disturbances in eating behavior, such as extreme and unhealthy reduction of food intake or severe overeating, as well as feelings of distress or extreme concern about body shape or weight. Eating disorders are not due to a failure of will or behavior; rather, they are real, treatable medical illnesses in which certain maladaptive patterns of eating take on a life of their own. The main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia. A third type, binge eating disorder, has been suggested but has not yet been approved as a formal psychiatric diagnosis.
Abnormal and dangerous eating patterns that are caused by mental illness. There are two principal types of eating disorders. In anorexia nervosa, the person is significantly underweight because of extreme dieting. In bulimia, the individual repeatedly indulges in out-of-control eating binges, then rids the body of the food, usually by induced vomiting.
The term ‘eating disorders’ covers obesity, feeding problems in childhood, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa. The latter two are described here.
Any pattern of eating that results in compromises (or potential compromises) to one’s health. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia, pica, and rumination disorder of infancy are included.
A classification of disturbed eating behaviors (bingeing, purging, fasting, excessively exercising, etc.) that are not as common or intense as in a diagnosed eating disorder.
Eating disorders is a disturbance in eating behavior that jeopardizes a person’s physical or psychosocial health.
A spectrum of abnormal eating patterns that eventually may endanger a person’s health or increase the risk for other diseases. Generally, psychological factors play a key role.
A state distinguished by an anomalous disposition towards nourishment, disrupted regulation of appetite, and detrimental dietary patterns that impact both well-being and the capacity to function in a typical manner.
Eating disorders are a group of illnesses primarily marked by obsessions with weight and body image. While these disorders are most prevalent among young adolescent females, they can also impact males.
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder where patients, despite being severely underweight, have a distorted perception of themselves as being fat and deliberately starve themselves. On the other hand, bulimia involves binge-eating followed by self-induced vomiting as one of its primary features, though individuals with this disorder may have a normal weight. These two conditions can occasionally coexist. In cases of morbid obesity, individuals experience a constant desire to consume large quantities of food.