True or false
7. Binge eating is characterized by compulsive eating.
8. Nutritional needs vary for each stage of life, so it is important to eat an
unhealthy diet through all life stages.
9. Bulimia nervosa is a psychiatric illness in which there is a preoccupation with
dieting and thinness.
10. Some of the signs and symptoms of Bulimia are tooth enamel injury, sores in
the mouth, enlarged stomach.
11. One percent of teenage girls in the U.S. develop anorexia nervosa and up to
10% of those may die as a result of the illness.
12. Most eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, occur in young women,
but may effect either males or females of any age.
13. There is no known way to prevent anorexia nervosa.
14. Signs and symptoms of the binge eating disorder is the lack of control once
one begins to eat, depression and self-hatred.
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