Eating Disorder

An Eating Disorder is characterised by an abnormal attitude towards food that causes someone to change their eating habits and behaviour

There are multiple types of eating disorders and each one is a struggle. The eating disorder displayed in To the Bone, is Anorexia. Below is the list of eating disorders:

Anorexia Nervosa

 * Anorexia Nervosa – When a person tries to keep their weight as low as possible; for example, by starving themselves or exercising excessively this is a condition that a few of the girls in the group (including Ellen) have.

Bulimia

 * Bulimia – When a person goes through periods of binge eating and is then deliberately sick or uses a type of medication to help empty their bowels to try to control their weight.

Binge Eating Disorder (BED)

 * Binge Eating Disorder (BED) – When a person eats excessively and multiple portions of food within a long time/short time or more than enough amount of food within a long time/short time, throughout the day and possibly at night and possibly gains weight from it (depending on metabolism). This condition is uncontrollable without help.

Night Eating Syndrome

 * Night Eating Syndrome (NES) – When a person eats at night, excessively or not, only, and has little to no appetite in the morning or throughout the day.

Orthorexia

 * Orthorexia – When a person not only has an obsession with eating healthy by their own definition, but is eating uncontrollably healthy.

Pica

 * Pica – Persistent eating of non-nutritive substances for a period of at least 1 month at an age in which this behavior is developmentally inappropriate.

Prader-Willi Syndrome

 * Prader-Willi Syndrome – Uncommon inherited disorder characterized by mental retardation, decreased muscle tone, short stature, emotional liability and an insatiable appetite which can lead to life-threatening obesity.