Health Chapter 4 Section 2 Review and Vocab

2. what health risks are associated with anorexia? Why are people with anorexia unlikely to ask for help?

Health risks include starving to death. People with anorexia don't ask for help because they deny that there is a problem.

4. What health risks are possible for someone with binge eating disorder?

Some health risks include excess weight gain and unhealthy dieting.

3. what is bulimia? Explain the connection between bulimia and dieting.

Uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging, or removing, the food from their bodies. People with bulimia want to lose weight, but do it in a unhealthy way that has negative effects on their health. Dieting is usually a healthier way to lose weight, but it can also be unsafe. The connection is losing weight.

1. what is an eating disorder?

a mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food.

eating disorder

a mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food.

anorexia nervosa

not eating enough food to maintain a healthy body weight.

binge eating disorder

uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food.

bulimia

uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging, or removing, the food from their bodies.