Identify a true statement about the factors that influence eating disorders.
A) Eating disorders are more prevalent in cultures where food is abundant and slimness is valued.
B) As eating disorders frequently begin with a desire to lose weight, people on weight-loss diets develop eating disorders.
C) Eating disorders are more common in regions like Africa and China than in industrialized Western countries like the United States.
D) Women who participate in beauty pageants as children are more likely to be satisfied by their body image as adults.
Q. 2Which of the following behaviors is common to both food neophobia and muscle dysmorphia?
A) Bingeing and purging
B) Maintaining unusual food rituals
C) Working out for hours each day
D) Eating while asleep
Q. 3A restrained eater is someone who:
A) eats while asleep without any recollection of having done so.
B) avoids consuming food for long periods of time between binges.
C) consumes more than half of daily calories after dinner.
D) perceives himself or herself as underweight.
Q. 4According to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which of the following is one of the sports with the highest numbers of male athletes with eating disorders?
A) Gymnastics
B) Wrestling
C) Swimming
D) Baseball
Q. 5Which of the following is a personality trait associated with eating disorders?
A) Gregariousness
B) Perfectionism
C) Enmeshment
D) Optimism
Q. 6Sara is a 16-year-old high school student. She often looks at herself in the mirror, and she perceives herself to be fat even though she is extremely thin and weighs only 77 lbs. She has restricted her diet and drinks only orange juice for breakfast, skips lunch at school, and eats an apple for dinner. If Sara visits a health practitioner, she is likely to be diagnosed with _____.
A) anorexia nervosa
B) bulimia nervosa
C) night eating syndrome
D) binge-eating disorder
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