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What is binge eating?
Eating a large amount of food, in a relatively short period of time, associated with a sense of lack of control and distress over the quantity or pace of eating or type of food consumed.
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What is a bone density scan?
DEXA scan
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What is anorexia?
This mental illness carries the second highest death rate of any mental illness.
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What is laxative abuse or diuretic abuse?
No calories are lost when using this form of purging.
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What is constipation?
Straining, having lumpy or hard stools, feeling the sensation of incomplete evacuation or the sensation of stool obstruction, needing to assist stool removal, or having fewer than three bowel movements a week. (during at least 25% of bowel movements)
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What are forms of purging?
Vomiting, laxative abuse, diuretic abuse, and excessive exercise.
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What is bradycardia?
Heart rate less than 60 beats per minute.
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What is Health at Every Size?
An activist movement that emerged as a response to health professionals realizing that weight loss intervention is an unethical intervention.
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What is dental erosion, angular cheilitis, parotid gland swelling, or ruptured blood vessels in the eye?
Name two ways purging can physically/visibly damage the body (head).
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What is hypoglycemia?
Blood glucose of less than 70mg/dL.
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What is ARFID?
An eating disorder characterized by a lack of interest in food, avoidance of sensory aspects of food, or concern about what might happen when they eat, making them unable to meet their energy intake needs consistently?
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What is vitamin D deficiency?
Fatigue, not sleeping well, bone pain or achiness, depression or feelings of sadness, hair loss, muscle weakness, loss of appetite, and getting sick more easily can be symptoms of a deficiency in what?
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What is binge eating disorder and OSFED?
The most common eating disorder in those over 40 years.
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What is rumination?
The act of regurgitating food into the mouth, chewing it, and re-swallowing it.
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What is gastroparesis?
Stomach paralysis.
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What is orthorexia?
An unhealthy obsession with eating healthy food.
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What are platelets?
(low WBC and RBC counts with restriction secondary to bone marrow suppression due to malnutrition)
Lab value from CBC that contributes to easy bruising in malnutrition.
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What is lanugo?
Fine downy hair on face, arms, and back.
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What is Pseudo-Barter Syndrome?
This syndrome results in painful fluid retention, and it takes weeks for the adrenal glands to understand that the body is well hydrated.
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What is bone density loss?
Of all the medical complications of malnutrition, this is the only one that is not fully reversible.
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What is starvation?
Any situation in which not enough calories are consumed to fulfill the body's needs over a period of time?
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What is low potassium?
Consequences of this electrolyte imbalance puts a person at risk for muscle weakness, muscle breakdown, intestinal dysfunction, and cardiac arrest.
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What is medically underweight?
Only 4% of eating disorder clients in residential treatment meet the criteria for being this.
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What is a Mallory-Weis tear?
A partial thickness tear of the esophagus.
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What is refeeding syndrome?
Critical electrolyte and fluid shifts that can potentially be fatal if not monitored.
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