Chapter 12 is designed to allow you to:
- 1. Contrast health attitudes toward uses of food with behavior patterns that could lead to unhealthy uses of food.
- 2. Outline the causes of, effects of, typical persons affected by, and treatment for anorexia nervosa.
- 3. Outline the causes of, effects of, typical persons affected by, and treatment for bulimia nervosa.
- 4. Describe still other forms of eating disorders: female athlete triad, binge-eating disorder, and baryophobia.
- 5. Relate the presence of eating disorders to current social trends.
- 6. Describe methods to reduce the development of eating disorders, including the use of warning signs to identify early cases.