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It encompasses symptoms and behaviours associated with eating disorders but occurs with less frequency, lower intensity, or reduced severity, often not meeting the full diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder.

Eating spectrum

Healthy eating

• body acceptance
• healthy weight for age, height and body type
• Eating regularity, variety, adequacy, spontaneity and enjoyment.

Disordered eating

• body dissatisfaction
• preoccupation with 'healthy eating'
• restrictive eating
• compulsive eating
• irregular or inflexible eating patterns.

Eating disorder

• conditions characterised by severe and persistent disturbance in eating behaviours and associated distressing thoughts and emotions
• diagnosed by health professionals

7 days post-competition: Disordered eating scores

Questionnaire respondents:

• 28 female
  • 11% minimal
  • 32% moderate
  • 36% high
  • 21% very high.
• 104 male
  • 17% minimal
  • 36% moderate
  • 37% high
  • 11% very high.
    

7 to 28 days post-competition: Disordered eating CHANGE scores

Questionnaire respondents:

• 24 female
  • 0% deteriorated
  • 25% improved
  • 75% no difference.
• 65 male
  • 5% deteriorated
  • 3% improved
  • 92% no difference.