There are three main types of Eating Disorders, including:

• Binge-eating - out of control eating where one stills eats even after they are full
• Bulimia Nervosa - having periods of binge eating, but throw it up on purpose afterwards
• Anorexia Nervosa - severely restrict food consumption

What are the symptoms of Eating Disorders?

• Binge Eating - excessively large portions of food in a particular time frame, eating when after one is full or not hungry or until one is uncomfortably full, eating fast, eating alone, feeling distressed, ashamed, or guilty about your eating, frequently dieting without any change
• Bulimia - Includes same symptoms over binge eating in addition to purging- making yourself throw up or using drugs to, excessive and intense exercise, fasting.
• Anorexia - Eating very little or starvation, excessive and intense exercise, extreme thinness, intense fear of weight gain, body image distortion.

At least 30 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder in the U.S.

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.

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Genetics, environmental factors, and personality traits all combine to create risk for an eating disorder.

Eating disorders affect all races and ethnic groups.

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Movies

• THIN: Documentary

• To the Bone

• The Road Within

• Feed

TV Shows

• Skins (Cassie)

• Make it or Break it (S2, Ep.10)

• Overshadowed

Songs

• Hunger - Florence + The Machine

• Paper Bag - Fiona Apple

• Teen Idle - MARINA

Podcasts

• Peace Meal - The Emily Program

• The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast - Janean Anderson

• Anthrodish - Sarah Duignan