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Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a feeding or eating disorder in which individuals significantly limit the volume or variety of foods they consume, causing malnutrition, weight loss, and/or psychosocial problems. [1] Unlike eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, body image disturbance is not a root cause.
Obese. ≥ 30.0. The body mass index, a ratio of a person's weight to their height, has traditionally been used to assess the health of a person as it pertains to weight: under the cut-off point at a BMI of 18.5, a person is considered underweight. [ 2] The calculation is either weight in kilograms divided by height in meters, squared, or ...
Binge eating disorder ( BED) is an eating disorder characterized by frequent and recurrent binge eating episodes with associated negative psychological and social problems, but without the compensatory behaviors common to bulimia nervosa, OSFED, or the binge-purge subtype of anorexia nervosa . BED is a recently described condition, [ 8] which ...
This is likely a result of poor screening for eating disorders in boys and men that allow for longer periods of illness before getting diagnosed or treated, despite the fact that the illness is ...
Gay men are at greater risk of eating disorder symptoms than heterosexual men. [144] Within the gay culture, muscularity gives the advantages of both social and sexual desirability and also power. [145] These pressures and ideas that another homosexual male may desire a mate who is thinner or muscular can possibly lead to eating disorders.
Symptoms. Not wanting to eat, no hunger, dizziness, weakness. Anorexia is a medical term for a loss of appetite. While the term outside of the scientific literature is often used interchangeably with anorexia nervosa, many possible causes exist for a loss of appetite, some of which may be harmless, while others indicate a serious clinical ...
Compared to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, in which a person’s primary motivation might be to change the look of their body, orthorexia typically starts with the goal to eat the ...
Obesity. Frequency. 1–2% (general population), approximately 10% of overweight individuals. Night eating syndrome ( NES) is an eating disorder, characterized by a delayed circadian pattern of food intake. [ 1] Although there is some degree of comorbidity with binge eating disorder, [ 1] it differs from binge eating in that the amount of food ...