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Monday, February 5, 2007
When is binging a problem?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So how many handfuls of nuts, pieces of pizza or plates of nachos did you eat during the Super Bowl?
It’s well accepted that going overboard every once in a while is human and cutting back the next day to correct for
calorie binges will keep you on track for the long haul. But, nutrition researchers are concerned that too many of us are binging on too much food way too often.
They go as far to say that frequent binge eating is the country’s most common eating disorder, far outpacing the
better-known diet problems of anorexia and bulimia, according to a national survey.
Psychiatric researchers at Harvard University Medical School and its affiliate, McLean Psychiatric Hospital, have
billed the study as the first national census of eating disorders. The results were published in the medical journal Biological Psychiatry. The survey found that 3.5 percent of women and 2 percent of men suffer from binge eating, defined as bouts of
uncontrolled eating, well past the point of being full, that occur at least twice a week.
Do you binge? And if so, is it a problem you’re concerned about?
