1. Eating disorders clearly illustrate the close links between emotional and physical health.

2. What does binging refer to?

3. Is self-induced vomiting one of the symptoms of bulimia?

4. Unlike people with bulimia nervosa, binge eaters do not try to vomit afterwards and they do not resort to the use of laxatives to get rid of the food.

5. Weight loss of 15% or greater below the expected weight is a sign of anorexia nervosa.

6. When binging is a chronic problem, it leads to:

7. Social factors can contribute to eating disorders.

8. Other possible causes of eating disorders are:
a. Troubled family and personal relationships
b. Difficulty in expressing emotions and feelings
c. History of being teased or ridiculed based on size or weight
d. History of physical or sexual abuse
e. Narrow definitions of beauty that include only women and men of specific body weights and shapes
f. History of hypertension

9. Just because you weigh yourself, skip meals, count calories, or over-exercise doesn’t necessarily mean that you have an eating disorder