The American Psychiatry Association defines eating disorders as “behavioral conditions characterized by severe and persistent disturbance in eating behaviors and associated distressing thoughts and emotions”.
Eating disorders can be very serious, sometimes fatal. The disorders are often associated with preoccupation with food, body weight, and shape, restrictive eating, binge eating, purging by vomiting, or compulsive exercising, affecting 5% of the American population and impairing them physically, psychologically, and socially.
The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.
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