Binge Eating Disorder

Symptoms

Recommended treatment

Risk factors/groups

Statistics

Binge eating disorder (BED) is and eating disorder where one feels out of control, and they eat large amounts of food in one sitting. What's different about BED, is that unlike Anorexia or Bulimia eating disorders, they don't try to get rid of the weight by excessive exercise or purging

Diagnostic criteria

Sources

Medicine

Psychotherapy

Nutritional counseling

Feeling disgusted or guilty after eating large quantities of food

Eating until uncomfortably full

Being embarrassed to eat in front of others

Eating faster then normal

Recurrent episodes or binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following; Eating, in a discrete period of time (a.gm.. within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat a similar period of time under similar circumstances. That sense of lack of control over eating during the episode.

Eating alone because of being embarressed by how much one is eating

Feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed, or very guilty after overeating.

Low-self esteem

People who diet

Hispanics, Asian-Americans, And Africans-Americans

BED is also more common them breast cancer, HIV, and Schizophrenia.

Three out of ten individuals looking for weight loss treatments show signs of BED

A 2007 study asked 9,283 English-speaking Americans about a variety of mental health conditions, including eating disorder.