Oct 24, 20205 minWhat is Food Addiction?Food addiction speculates that certain foods trigger similar pleasure pathways in the brain that addictive drugs trigger, causing addiction.
Jul 31, 20206 minWhat is Orthorexia Nervosa?Orthorexia is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating to the point of damage. One risk factor is a past/current eating disorder.
Jun 30, 20206 minWhat is Night Eating Disorder?Night eating disorder (NES) is a combination of insomnia and binge eating disorder. This eating disorder entails eating during the night.
Jun 23, 20205 minWhat is Purging Disorder?Purging disorder is characterized by purging activities to lose weight or obtain a specific body shape.
Jun 16, 20204 minWhat is AFRID?Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, or ARFID, is characterized by staying away from certain foods or eating very little food.
Jun 5, 20203 minWhat is Rumination Eating Disorder?Rumination eating disorder is eating food, swallowing, regurgitating the food, chewing it again, then re-swallowing it or spitting it out.
May 15, 20203 minWhat is Pica?Pica is characterized by eating items of no nutritional value such as ice, soap, dirt, or paint. It is a rare eating disorder.
Mar 5, 20209 minWhat is Bulimia Nervosa?Bulimia Nervosa (BN) is binge eating, followed by purging. Purging is anything that overcompensates for the food consumed.
Feb 29, 20208 minWhat is Anorexia Nervosa?Anorexia nervosa (AN) is the fear of becoming fat and/or perceiving yourself as fat when you aren't necessarily so.
Feb 26, 20206 minWhat is Binge Eating Disorder?Binge eating disorder is when an individual consumes a large amount of food in a short time accompanied by feelings of loss of control.