Eating disorders

Eating disorders are behavioral conditions characterized by severe and persistent disturbance in eating behaviors and associated distressing thoughts and emotions.

They can be very serious conditions affecting physical,
psychological and social function.
The most common eating disorders are:
• anorexia nervosa (often called anorexia) – trying to control your weight by not
eating enough food, exercising too much, or doing both
• bulimia – losing control over how much you eat and then taking drastic action
to not put on weight
• binge eating disorder (BED) – eating large portions of food until you feel uncomfortably full
Taken together, eating disorders affect up to 5% of the population, most often develop in adolescence and young adulthood. Several, especially anorexia nervosa
and bulimia nervosa are more common in women, but they can all occur at any age and affect any gender