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Eating disorder

Meaning in nutrition & dietetics, with examples

nounCommon term

In nutrition & dietetics, eating disorder means: A serious mental health condition involving harmful eating behaviors and strong concerns about food, weight or body shape, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder.

In Turkish: yeme bozukluğu

How it is used

Treated by a multidisciplinary team that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors and specialist dietitians. Professionals use careful, non-judgmental language and avoid focusing on numbers such as calories or weight in front of patients. ARFID is another recognized diagnosis.

Example sentences

  1. She works as a specialist dietitian in an eating disorder service for adolescents.

  2. Eating disorders can affect people of any age, gender or body size.

Common collocations

  • eating disorder service
  • develop an eating disorder
  • recovery from an eating disorder
  • disordered eating
  • intermittent fastingAn eating pattern that switches between periods of eating and periods of fasting or very low intake, such as eating only within an eight-hour window each day.
  • nutrition counselingA supportive conversation, usually over several sessions, in which a dietitian helps a person understand their eating, set goals and make lasting changes that suit their health and lifestyle.
  • malnutritionA condition caused by a diet that does not match the body's needs. It usually means undernutrition, but in global health it also covers overweight, obesity and micronutrient deficiencies.
  • eating habitsThe usual ways a person eats: what, when, where, how much and how fast they eat, together with the routines and feelings connected with food.

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