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Chapter 6: - Eating Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2024

Charlotte Markey
Charlotte Markey
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
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Summary

  • Healthy eating habits include choosing mostly nutritious food options from what is available to you (for example, fruits and vegetables), but also include enjoying food and making eating a fun part of your life.

  • Always denying yourself foods that you enjoy or eating too much or too little to feel good, isn’t healthy and may lead to disordered eating, or even a serious eating disorder. If you think that you or someone you know may have an eating disorder, talk with an adult and look for treatment ASAP.

  • Treatment for eating disorders is possible, but most effective if it begins early in the development of the disorder and includes specialists with expertise in treating eating disorders.

Keywords

eating disordersanorexia nervosabulima nervosabinge eating disorderbody dysmorphic disordertreatment and recoveryHAES (health at every size)orthorexiaEating Attitude Testfood addiction
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Adultish
The Body Image Book for Life
 , pp. 95 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Eating Disorders
  • Charlotte Markey, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Adultish
  • Online publication: 10 October 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009228978.007
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  • Eating Disorders
  • Charlotte Markey, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Adultish
  • Online publication: 10 October 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009228978.007
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  • Eating Disorders
  • Charlotte Markey, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Adultish
  • Online publication: 10 October 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009228978.007
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