Question

3. Discuss eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

4. Discuss dementia, including dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Answer 1

3Eatingdisordersare illnesses in which the people experience severe disturbances in their eatingbehaviors and related thoughts and emotions. People with eating disorders typically become pre-occupied with food and their body weight. Eating disorders are serious conditions related to persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact your health, your emotions and your ability to function in important areas of life. The most common eating disorders are. anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorders.

Most eating disorders are much more common in women and girls than in men and boys. Girls in their teens are most likely to develop an eating disorder, but boys and men are also affected. In fact, one in every four children diagnosed with anorexia nervosa is a boy.Eating disorders can harm the heart, digestive system, bones, and teeth and mouth, and lead to other disease.

1. Anorexia Nervosa eating disorders

Anorexia (an-o-REK-see-uh) nervosa — often simply called anorexia — is a potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by an abnormally low body weight, intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of weight or shape.Anorexia can have damaging health effects, such as brain damage, multi-organ failure, bone loss, heart difficulties, and infertility. The risk of death is highest in individuals with this disease.

Bulimia nervosa:_

This eating disorder is characterized by repeated binge eating followed by behaviors that compensate for the overeating, such as forced vomiting, excessive exercise, or extreme use of laxatives or diuretics. Men and women who suffer from Bulimia may fear weight gain and feel severely unhappy with their body size and shape. The binge-eating and purging cycle is typically done in secret, creating feelings of shame, guilt, and lack of control. Bulimia can have injuring effects, such as gastrointestinal problems, severe dehydration, and heart difficulties resulting from an electrolyte imbalance.

4:-Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia. .

The most common types are Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Dementia is most likely to develop in older people over 65 but can occur at a younger age. People with Down syndrome are more likely to develop dementia as they get older, particularly Alzheimer's disease.There are five main types of dementia.

Alzheimer's Disease. Probably the most known and the most common dementia type, Alzheimer is a consequence of an abnormal shrinkage of the brain. ...

Dementia with Lewy Bodies. ...

Vascular Dementia. ...

Frontotemporal Dementia. ...

Mixed Dementia

-You might be able to control the following risk factors for dementia.

Diet and exercise. Research shows that lack of exercise increases the risk of dementia. ...

Heavy alcohol use. ...

Cardiovascular risk factors. ...

Depression. ...

Diabetes. ...

Smoking. ...

Sleep apnea. ...

Vitamin and nutritional deficiencies

• -Common early symptoms of dementia

memory loss.

difficulty concentrating.

finding it hard to carry out familiar daily tasks, such as getting confused over the correct change when shopping.

struggling to follow a conversation or find the right word.

being confused about time and place.

mood changes..

Alzheimer's is a progressive disease, where dementia symptoms gradually worsen over a number of years. In its early stages, memory loss is mild, but with late-stage Alzheimer's, individuals lose the ability to carry on a conversation and respond to their environment.There are two types of Alzheimer's—early-onset and late-onset.

Alzheimer's disease is thought to be caused by the abnormal build-up of proteins in and around brain cells. One of the proteins involved is called amyloid, deposits of which form plaques around brain .

The four A's of Alzheimer's disease include: (1) Amnesia, (2) Aphasia, (3) Apraxia, 4.agnosia

Treatment:_