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Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. 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 ...
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 ...
Psychiatry. Unspecified feeding or eating disorder ( UFED) is a DSM-5 category of eating disorders that, along with other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED), replaced eating disorder not otherwise specified ( EDNOS) in the DSM-IV-TR . UFED is an eating disorder that does not meet the criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa ...
It is a common misconception that eating disorders are restricted only to women, and this may have skewed research disproportionately to study female populations. [349] In the developed world, binge eating disorder affects about 1.6% of women and 0.8% of men in a given year. [1]
In women, being severely underweight, often as a result of an eating disorder or due to excessive strenuous exercise, can result in amenorrhea (absence of menstruation), [20] infertility or complications during pregnancy if gestational weight gain is too low. [citation needed] Malnourishment can also cause anemia and hair loss.
Atypical anorexia nervosa. Atypical anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which individuals meet all the qualifications for anorexia nervosa, including a body image disturbance and a history of restrictive eating and weight loss, except that they are not currently underweight. [ 1] Atypical anorexia qualifies as a mental health disorder in ...
Maudsley family therapy. Maudsley family therapy also known as family-based treatment or Maudsley approach, is a family therapy for the treatment of anorexia nervosa devised by Christopher Dare and colleagues at the Maudsley Hospital in London. A comparison of family to individual therapy was conducted with eighty anorexia patients.
It was found that rates of eating disorder appearances in children with either parent having a history of an eating disorder were much higher than those with parents without an eating disorder. [9] Reported disordered eating peaked between ages 15 and 17 with the risk of eating disorder occurrences in females 12.7 times greater than of that in ...