In this episode of The Health Wrap podcast, multimedia medical consultant and sports physician Dr Darren Green discusses how we interact with food. When do we have a disordered relationship with food and when is it classified as an eating disorder? Dietitian Ingrid Schloss from Mediclinic Cape Town helps explain the difference between these conditions and Marcus Viljoen shares his personal story of dealing with disordered eating during his teenage years.

Some notable moments:

[00:03:28] The signs of an unhealthy relationship with food

[00:04:52] Marcus’s experience with disordered eating

[00:07:55] The spectrum of eating disorders and disordered eating

[00:09:58] What is anorexia nervosa?

[00:11:32] What is bulimia nervosa?

[00:13:39] What is binge eating disorder?

[00:15:17] Causes of eating disorders

[00:17:34] The link between personality types and eating disorders

[00:19:14] Are certain population groups at greater risk?

[00:21:50] Looking at orthorexia

[00:26:22] How to help someone who has an unhealthy relationship with food

[00:29:47] Tools that have helped Marcus to heal

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