Eating Disorder

Eating Disorder

Compulsive Overeating Eating Disorder
Compulsive overeating is an eating disorder whereby you have a strong addiction to food. Just like all other types of addictions, when you suffer from compulsive overeating, you constantly crave for food even though you do not need to consume all that much. You end up stuffing yourself and not realising that you should stop as you are already full. Compulsive overeating is often confused with binge eating, which is a similar, but more serious eating disorder. Binge eating is also characterize Read More...
Eating Disorders - The Three Types
There are three main types of eating disorder; these are Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. The term eating disorder is used to describe any eating patterns that are obsessive and long lasting. In the last 20 to 30 years or so there has been a marked increase in the amount of people troubled by these disorders. Let’s have a brief look at the three variants. Anorexia nervosa Anorexia is an eating disorder where individuals starve themselves of food, because they have a Read More...
Eating Disorder Statistics
People with an eating disorder eat in such a manner that compromises their physical health. The manner of eating may vary in ways: it may be excessive or very limited, or eating all the wrong foods. Among the known eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating rise as the most adamant cases particularly in western countries. Research sums up that over a span of one lifetime there are at least 50, 000 people who will die because of eating disorders. If untreated, a total o Read More...

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