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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.

There are five critical signs of an eating disorder - rule, hiding, importance, feelings, and habits.

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.

There are three stages of recovery: the transition/abstinence stage, the early recovery/repair stage, and the ongoing recovery/growth stage.

Do you have an eating disorder? It's not yes or no. Eating disorders come in all sizes. Take this eating disorder severity test to find out!

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.