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What is Anorexia Nervosa
An eating disorder that makes people lose more weight that is unhealthy for their age and height.
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What is fact.
Eating disorders are common among teens and young adults.
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What is Anorexia Nervosa
An intense fear of gaining weight or being "fat"
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What is Bulimia Nervosa
An illness which a person binges on food after the feeling of over eating.
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What is fiction.
Men are more likely than women to seek help for eating disorders.
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What is Bulimia
Eating in secret
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What is Compulsive Overeating.
Food addiction; Eating to much at once.
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What is fiction.
Eating disorders are mainly a problem among wealthy, white females.
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What is Compulsive eating
Over eating and eating when not hungry
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What is Pica
Eating non- food items to make you feel food. (Cotton balls, paper, dirt)
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What is fiction
You have to be underweight to have a eating disorder
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What is Bulimia
Feeling depressed, guilty, of disused by behavior
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What is ENDOS
Eating orders not specified; don't fit the signs of Anorexia or Bulimia.
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What is fact
Family therapy is the most effective treatment for eating disorders
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What is Compulsive eating
Eating alone because of embarrassment of judgement.
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