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Food addiction speculates that certain foods trigger similar pleasure pathways in the brain that addictive drugs trigger, causing addiction.

Orthorexia is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating to the point of damage. One risk factor is a past/current eating disorder.

Night eating disorder (NES) is a combination of insomnia and binge eating disorder. This eating disorder entails eating during the night.

Purging disorder is characterized by purging activities to lose weight or obtain a specific body shape.

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, or ARFID, is characterized by staying away from certain foods or eating very little food.

Rumination eating disorder is eating food, swallowing, regurgitating the food, chewing it again, then re-swallowing it or spitting it out.

Pica is characterized by eating items of no nutritional value such as ice, soap, dirt, or paint. It is a rare eating disorder.

Bulimia Nervosa (BN) is binge eating, followed by purging. Purging is anything that overcompensates for the food consumed.

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is the fear of becoming fat and/or perceiving yourself as fat when you aren't necessarily so.

Binge eating disorder is when an individual consumes a large amount of food in a short time accompanied by feelings of loss of control.

What is an eating disorder? Clinical definitions of every eating disorder.