Question

1) Heather and Amber are good friends and hope to become models when they finish high school. They are hypersensitive to their weight, having seen the standards that models are held to in the media. Heather and Amber have very different eating habits, but both have been told by friends that they each have a serious eating disorder. Heather often eats uncontrollably for days at a time, followed by several days of fasting. She works out vigorously and has irregular periods. Often after eating, she vomits up the meal and is exhausted and depressed, feeling that her behavior is what it will take to become a model.

Amber also works hard to stay thin, but unlike Heather, Amber doesn’t want to eat in public. She is often anxious and frequently misses several periods in a row. Amber Is already more than 15% below the ideal weight for her age and height, but insists on losing more weight, insisting to friends that she’s fat.

Question: Identify the eating disorder that best describes Amber’s eating pattern and explain what behaviors lead you to this conclusion. Discuss the potential long-term consequences to her health if she continues this eating pattern. Include in your response specific data, facts, examples, key terminology and other information drawn from the textbook and at least one other supplemental source.

2) Rodney is 55-years-old, stands 6’ tall, weighs 280 pounds and has a 44” waist circumference. He has always had a sedentary job and loves to cook. Both his mother and father are overweight, and his father suffered a heart attack at age 45. During his annual physical exam, Rodney’s doctor diagnosed him with metabolic syndrome and suggested that he may be a candidate for bariatric surgery, as his lab results and family history put him in the high-risk category chronic diseases.

Question: Calculate Rodney’s BMI and explain how his waist circumference fits into his risk for chronic disease. Include in your response specific data, facts, examples, key terminology and other information drawn from the textbook and at least one other supplemental source.

Answer 1

1.Amber is suffering from an eating disorder, " Anorexia Nervousa"

Anorexia Nervousa: This is a well known eating disorder where people feels them selves as over weight, even if they are under weight.They usually monitor their weight and avoid certain calorie and nutritious rich diet.Also these people will have obsession and also compulsion disorder , having thoughts of food pre occupied and also fear of eating food in public.

Things that made to decide or conclude Amber is suffering from Anorexia Nervousa are though she is less than the ideal body weight she is thinking that she is fat and she doesn't like to eat in public.

Potential long term complications

• Osteoporosis
• Anaemia
• Seizures
• Problems of thyroid
• Decreased leukocytes
• Amenorrhoea
• Lowered hormonal levels
• Hair loss
• Muscle wasting
• Weakness
• Hypertension
• Suicide and
• Death.

2.Rodneys BMI is 37.96, that is 280 pounds in kgs divided by 6 feet in meter square.

Waist circumference is 44, but it should be actually less than 40 for men.This is actually considered as a dangerous size for men.

Risk factors or chronic diseases because of increased waist size is

• High blood pressure
• Heart attack
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Bad cholesterol accumulation that is LDL