First, bingeing and starving is how many animals tend to feed in the wild.

ECONOMIST: Longevity

They were, in addition, fed only on alternate days: bingeing one day and starving the next.

ECONOMIST: Longevity

China's coastal urban middle classes have been bingeing on everything from life insurance to cars and computers.

ECONOMIST: Mobile phones in China

This was perhaps due to bingeing over the weekend, they said - but also might be caused by work stress.

BBC: Stress: The effects

This did not reduce its debt, but it sent a message that the bingeing was over and the retrenchment had begun.

ECONOMIST: Telecoms debt

Striegel-Moore says women of color in her study did suffer from bulimia and bingeing, two other eating disorders, though in smaller numbers than white women did.

NPR: Roundtable: Black Women and Body Image

Investors in Japan are changing strategy, buying stocks of firms that will benefit from a stronger local economy after earlier bingeing on exporters as the yen weakened.

WSJ: What's News

Second, depriving yourself of foods that you really love can lead to bingeing, which probably results in increased caloric intake and weight gain over the long run.

CNN: How can I curb my chocolate addiction?

Louis plays a lo-fi version of himself, spending his days drifting through New York, brooding, bingeing on ice cream, slumping in wintry playgrounds, like Charlie Brown with a buried temper.

NEWYORKER: Black and Blue

After bingeing on stock in Japan's exporters, investors are now buying companies that will benefit from a stronger Japanese economy, placing bets that Tokyo's latest push to rev up growth will pay off.

WSJ: Japanese Stock Rally Shifts To a New Gear