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Binge eating disorder - Coggle Diagram
Binge eating disorder
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Risk factors/Groups
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Hispanics, Asian-americans, and African-americans
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diagnostic criteria
Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following; Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances. The sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating)
Feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed, or very guilty after overeating
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Binge-eating episodes are associated with three (or more) of the following: Eating much more rapidly than normal, Eating until feeling uncomfortably full, Eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry,
Statistics
BED is also more common than breast cancer, HIV, and schizophrenia.
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A 2007 study asked 9,282 English-speaking Americans about a variety of mental health conditions, including eating disorders. The results, published in Biological Psychiatry, found that 3.5% of women and 2.0% of men had binge eating disorder during their life.
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Binge eating disorder (BED) is an eating disorder where one feels out of control, and they eat large amounts of foods in one sitting. What's different about BED, is that unlike anorexia or bulimia eating disorder, they don't try to get rid of the weight by excessive exercise or purging.