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Eating Disorders
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Disorders of food ingestion, regulation or attitude that affect health and well-being, such as anorexia, bulemia or binge-eating
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Anorexia Nervosa
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Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming "fat", couppled with refusal to maintain adequate nutrition with severe loss of body weight.
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Purge
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The removal of food from the body by self-induced vommiting or misuse of laxitives, diuretics or edemas.
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Bulimia Nervosa
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Frequent occurence of binge eating episodes accompanied by a sense of loss of control of overeating and recurrent inappropriate behaviors such as purging or excessive excersice to prevent weight gain.
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Eating Disorder not otherwise specified
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A diagnostic cataregory reserved for the disorders o feating that do not meet the critiria for any other specific ating disorders.
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Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
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Distinct from non-purging bulimia nervosa, whereby binging is not accompanied by inapropriate compensatory behavior to limit wieght gain
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Meta-analysis
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Is a statistical method used to combine the results of a number of similar research studies, the data from each seperate study are transformed into a comon metric scale called "effective size"
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Negative Affect
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The expirience of an emotional state characterized by negative emotions.
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Perfectionism
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The need to get things excactly right. a personality trait that may increase the risk for development of eating disorders.
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Ramdonized controlled trials
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Involves a specific treatment group as well as a control treatment group. Participants have equal chance of being placed in either group because the are assigned radomly.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Therapy based on altering dysfunctional thoughts and cognitive dysfuctions.
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Obesity
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The condition of having elevated fat masses in the body. it is defined as having a BMI of 30 or higher.
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Body Mass Indesx (BMI)
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An estimate of total body fat.
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