{"id":2638,"date":"2022-07-22T03:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T03:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/healing-health-wellness\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2022-07-22T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:58:48","slug":"the-different-types-of-eating-disorders-do-you-recognize-any-of-these-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/healing-health-wellness\/2022\/07\/the-different-types-of-eating-disorders-do-you-recognize-any-of-these-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Different Types of Eating Disorders: Do You Recognize Any of These Symptoms?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We live in a time where \u201chealth\u201d marketers and influencers have used destructive dietary memes to manipulatively, or unintentionally, reinforce their protocols and restrictive nutritional practices. Concerningly, these current popularized approaches to nutrition, health, and fitness, if not scrutinized, could be perpetuating and fueling health anxiety, false anxiety<\/a>, and eating disorders.<\/p>\n

The rise in the prevalence of eating disorders is alarming. According to John Hopkins University<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2026many members of the mental health community (including me) have become increasingly concerned about dramatic rises in eating disorder (ED) symptoms that have been reported both in the United States and globally…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026 The <\/em><\/strong>National Eating Disorder Association<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (NEDA) has reported increases as high as <\/em><\/strong>107<\/em><\/strong><\/a>% in calls to its helpline at different points in the past two years.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The article further details the dangers of how two specific factors, messaging on social media and the impact of stress from the world\u2019s crises, are contributing to eating disorders (ED). As noted previously, eating disorders are complex and have <\/strong>multiple biological, genetic, brain health, and psychosocial components<\/strong><\/a> that contribute to them. I believe that the underlying reason that social media can be so harmful to ED is that it reflects many diet culture beliefs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A first step to combating this disturbing trend is awareness and education.<\/p>\n

For the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been discussing diet and wellness culture,<\/a> food addiction<\/a>, and eating disorders.<\/a><\/p>\n

In my first post on eating disorders<\/a>, I provided an overview<\/a> and some statistics on them. \u00a0Next, I reviewed specific risk factors<\/a> and characteristics of eating disorders.<\/p>\n

Now, in the remainder of this series<\/a>, I will give a summary of each type of eating disorder based on several references.<\/p>\n

In my latest article and video:<\/a><\/p>\n