The purpose of this study was to characterize the psychological processes of recovery from binge eating disorder (BED). A model was developed by asking the research question, “What is the experience of recovery for women with BED?” Unstructured interviews were conducted with six women who met the DSM-IV criteria for BED, and who were recovered from binge eating for a minimum of six months. The ...

Binge eating disorder (BED) is characterized by the ingestion of a large amount of food in a short period of time and the preferential choice of high palatable food. BED is the most common eating disorder, which is associated with other medical and psychiatric complications, most notably obesity and depression [1]. The effective treatment for BED is urgently needed. We adapted a recently develo...

OBJECTIVE Although the cross-cultural prevalence of anorexia and bulimia nervosa has been investigated in multiple studies, little is known about the prevalence and correlates of binge eating and binge eating disorder (BED) cross-culturally. No published studies to date have explored BED in small-scale, indigenous, or developing societies. The current study investigated the prevalence and corre...

Background: Although people tend to be exposed food addiction today, there are no formal diagnostics for Food Addiction. Thus, clinical application therapy is difficult. The present study reviews the characteristics, mechanisms, and measurement tools, presents opinions on psychiatric classification suggest directions further research.Methods: authors conducted a literature search using terms or...

CONTEXT Whether mutations in the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) are the cause of binge eating disorder was controversial. In addition, the penetrance of mutations in the MC4R in causing obesity was debated. OBJECTIVE We investigated whether MC4R variants identified from obese patients with binge eating disorder (T11A, F51L, T112M, and M200V) and variants identified in nonobese (I102T, F202L, ...

T he DSM-III-R category of bulimia nervosa describes an eating disorder characterized by binge-eating episodes as well as other abnormal eating-related behaviors. The choice of the term bulimia to label this syndrome in the DSM-HI was in a sense unfortunate, since the term bulimia is also used simply to indicate binge eating episodes. However, this syndrome encompasses far more than binge eatin...

OBJECTIVE First described over 50 years ago, binge eating disorder (BED) only recently has become the focus of epidemiologic studies. This article provides a comprehensive review of these studies. METHOD Relevant studies were examined and summarized in the form of a narrative review. RESULTS Similar to the early studies of bulimia nervosa (BN), the first generation of epidemiologic studies ...