Binge+Eating+Podcast-RJ

media type="file" key="HumanBioPODCAST.m4a" Binge Eating: • Eat a lot of food in a short period of time o Sense of loss of control • Gorging on food at least 2 times a week that leaves you feeling uncomfortably stuffed which goes on for about 3 months or so. • Could be a mental disorder • Most prevalent eating problem based off of a study conducted by Harvard University • James Hudson of Harvard McLean Hospital says that binging can be considered a stand alone disorder • For an eating problem to be a psychiatric problem it would have to disrupt a person’s life and cause anguish • After interviewing 9,000 adults face-to-face, he found that 3.5% of women and 2% of men struggle with it • More common than bulimia and anorexia combined • Then again there are cases where binging occasionally isn’t necessarily considered a disorder • Psychiatrist of UCLA David Feinberg says that it is rare to find binging as a stand alone disorder. o “most of the people who come in seeking help for eating problems are diagnosed with the classic disorders — marked by binging and purging — or by a refusal to eat, as in the case of anorexia.” • Abnormal behavior • Binge eating is bulimia without the purging • There are treatments to help it o Cognitive behavioral treatment o Innerpersonal psycho therapy o Antidepressant medications