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Survey: 3% Of Americans Are Binge Eaters

Source: www.mclean.harvard.edu
Topic: Binge eating
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Sort Desciption: Binge eating disrupts the lives of 3.5 percent of U.S. women and 2 percent of U.S. men, for an average of eight years, a new survey shows. That makes binge eating more widespread than the other two eating disorders ...

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Binge eating disrupts the lives of 3.5 percent of U.S. women and 2 percent of U.S. men, for an average of eight years, a new survey shows. That makes binge eating more widespread than the other two eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia affects nearly 1 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men, the study finds; bulimia affects 1.5 percent of women and 0.5 percent of men. Yet binge eating disorder isnt currently an official psychiatric diagnosis. The new finding is likely to change that, say researchers James I. Hudson, M.D., ScD; Harrison Pope Jr., M.D.; and colleagues at Harvard University and McLean Hospital. These data suggest that binge eating disorder is common -more common than the other two eating disorders combined. It is associated with obesity, and it is persistent, Hudson said in a news conference held to announce the findings. For the study, Hudson and colleagues asked detailed questions about eating in face-to-face interviews from 2001 to 2003, with a nationally representative sample of about 3,000 U.S. adults. They report their findings in the Feb. 1 issue of Biological Psychiatry. Binge Eating Disorder Hallmarks: Distress, Loss of Control No, you dont have binge eating disorder if you mindlessly down a dozen hot wings, a burger, and a big bag of chips during the Super Bowl. That is unhealthy overeating, not an eating disorder. In binge eating, at least twice a week, at times they dont choose and despite feelings of distress and disgust binge eaters uncontrollably gorge themselves on massive quantities of food. Pope says after interviewing hundreds of people with binge eating disorder that he heard the same kind of story over and over again. Once they start, they go over the cliff. Even though they feel guilty and disgusted, they cant shut it off, Pope said at the news conference. ...

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