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• Behaviors directed toward weight loss like dieting, exercise and purging.
• Withdrawn and socially isolated, refuses to eat with family on the table.
• Distorted body image, they see themselves as fat despite being emaciated.
• Intense fear of becoming fat.
• Due to misconception that food can make them obese and look ugly, their life is dominated
by behavior directed at avoiding food intake and weight loss. They then become
preoccupied with food and engage in bizarre behaviors such as peculiar way on handling
food, hoarding food, collecting recipes, rearranging food on plate repeatedly, dawdling,
reading multiple materials about food to the point of thinking that they have superior
knowledge
• Depressed, sleep disturbances, suicidal tendencies and crying spells.
• Compulsive rituals.
• In women, amenorrhea for at least four months and lack of interest in sexual activity due to
lack of nourishment, menstruation can occur only if a woman is able to maintain at least
17% of body fat.
• In men, level of sex hormones drop. Males develop eating disorders too. About 10% of
patient with eating disorders are male.
• Physical symptoms include bradycardia, hypothermia, dehydration, dependent edema,
hypotension due to decreased metabolic rate as a compensatory mechanism of the body to
low food intake.
• Induce vomiting, uses enema, diet pills, excessive exercise, diuretics and laxatives.
• As disease progresses, becomes deceitful, stubborn, hostile, and manipulative.
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