Exam 15: Disordered Eating

Several days of disordered eating behaviors probably have little effect on an athlete's ability to train and compete.

People with binge-eating disorder actually perceive themselves as fat despite their emaciation.

Disordered eating represents a temporary or mild change in eating behavior.

Adolescent girls who experience physical and/or sexual violence when dating show a relatively high rate of abnormal weight control behaviors such as laxative use, vomiting, or both.

Who is credited as the first person to "officially" use the term anorexia nervosa?

Physical consequences of bulimia nervosa include which of the following?

Interpersonal psychotherapy focuses on teaching the patient to identify, monitor, and modify dysfunctional attitudes, core beliefs, and eating habits to lessen binges and "retrain" normal hunger and satiety responses.

Anorexia nervosa is the only eating disorder in which there is a restriction in food intake.

Disordered eating behaviors occur most frequently among female athletes in aesthetic sports such as ballet, body building, diving, figure skating, and gymnastics.

Which of the following eating disorders associates with menstrual dysfunction?

Physical ailments associated with anorexia nervosa do not include __________.

Pica.

Which statement is true about anorexia nervosa?

Among 3000 middle-school children studied for body image and dietary practices, 55% of eighth-grade girls believed they were fat, and 50% had dieted.

It is possible to perform a proper medical assessment of anorexia nervosa by measuring only weight, body mass index, and blood samples.

The concept that individuals with potentially pathologic concerns about body size and shape gravitate (self-select) to sport is called the attraction to sport hypothesis.