PSYC 188 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating
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You can be obese without an eating disorder. Addiction-like problem eating has greatest lifetime bmi, eating pathologies, and unique hormone characteristics. Eating when you are hungry and when you are sated. Involves being able to distinguish emotional hunger to physical hunger and satiety from overfullness. Irrestistible urge to eat that leads persons to act against their will. Eating when you are not hungry and not stopping when you are sated. Compulsive eating is a key component in . Compulsivity is involved but not compulsive eating per se. Pica : compulsive eating of things that are not food. Not diagnosed in children under the age of 2. Repeated regurgitation of food over a period of at least 1 month. Regurgitated food may be spat out, vomited out, rechewed, etc. Food avoidance based on sensory characteristics of food or concern about aversive consequences. High comorbidity in children with ocd or autism. Binge eating disorder: recurrent episodes of binge eating.
