PS371 Chapter 8 Vocab

Bulimia Nervosa

Eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive (binge) eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food (for example, deliberate vomiting, laxative abuse, and excessive exercise).

Binges

 Relatively brief episode of uncontrolled, excessive consumption, usually of food or alcohol.

Anorexia Nervosa

 Eating disorder characterized by recurrent food refusal, leading to dangerously low body weight.

Binge-eating disorder

Pattern of eating involving distress-inducing binges not followed by purging behaviors; being considered as a new DSM diagnostic category.

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)

Type of eating disorder where people limit their food intake not because they are concerned about weight or body shape but because they are not interested in eating or food or because they avoid certain sensory characteristics or consequences of food or eating.

Obesity

Excess of body fat resulting in a body mass index (BMI, a ratio of weight to height) of 30 or more.

Purging techniques

In the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, the self-induced vomiting or laxative abuse used to compensate for excessive food ingestion.

Purging disorder

An eating disorder where people influence their weight by self-induced vomiting, using laxatives, diuretics, or other medications but do not show binge-eating disorder or other eating disorders.

Night eating syndrome

Consuming a third or more of daily food intake after the evening meal and getting out of bed at least once during the night to have a high-calorie snack. In the morning, however, individuals with night eating syndrome are not hungry and do not usually eat breakfast. These individuals do not binge during their night eating and seldom purge.