However, as some of the comments show, binge eating also needs to be addressed.
My mother was a recovered anorexic but had a propensity for binge eating all her adult life.
They found that 12% of girls aged 12 to 14 reported binge eating episodes in the previous month.
Until DSM-5 -- the latest version of the psychiatric diagnostic manual -- was released this month, binge eating wasn't an official eating disorder.
Many people who binge go long periods of time in between without eating to try to save calories, which can lead to more binge eating later on.
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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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.
Binge-eating disorder, hoarding disorder, and excoriation (skin-picking) will also now be legitimate disorders with which one can be diagnosed.
As a result, he was obese, he was binge-eating and was also taking the maximum medication to cope with his diabetes.
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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