Binge-eating disorder, hoarding disorder, and excoriation (skin-picking) will also now be legitimate disorders with which one can be diagnosed.

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As a result, he was obese, he was binge-eating and was also taking the maximum medication to cope with his diabetes.

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Binge-eating is a more common form of eating disorder, with about 2.8% of the population experiencing it in their lives (twice as many women as men suffer from this form).

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STRIEGEL-MOORE: What we think drives some of the binge eating is stress-related, and so if you're talking about someone who is upwardly mobile or who is in a context where they're, you know, a token person, they may experience a considerable amount of stress and that that may, in part--contributing to their eating problem.

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In fact, an experiment showed that greater Facebook use was associated with a higher body-mass index and increased binge eating, as well as a lower credit score, and higher levels of credit card debt for consumers with many close friends in their social network.

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Until DSM-5 -- the latest version of the psychiatric diagnostic manual -- was released this month, binge eating wasn't an official eating disorder.

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