Health Survey for England 2019: Eating disorders
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An eating disorder is related to having an unhealthy attitude towards food. This can involve eating too much or too little, being obsessed with weight or body shape, changes in mood, excessive exercise, having strict habits or routines around food or purging after eating. People with eating disorders often experience psychological distress as well as physical complications, such as feeling tired or dizzy, problems with digestion or an absence of menstruation in women and girls. The most common types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and other specified food or eating disorder.
Anorexia nervosa is characterised by a significantly low body weight. This is accompanied by a persistent pattern of behaviours to prevent restoration of normal weight; for example, by reducing calorie intake, purging, and excessive exercise. Having a low body weight is central to self-evaluation and can be inaccurately perceived to be a normal or exce...
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