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Oct 24, 20205 min read
What is Food Addiction?
Food addiction speculates that certain foods trigger similar pleasure pathways in the brain that addictive drugs trigger, causing addiction.
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Jul 31, 20206 min read
What 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.
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Jun 30, 20206 min read
What 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.
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Jun 23, 20205 min read
What is Purging Disorder?
Purging disorder is characterized by purging activities to lose weight or obtain a specific body shape.
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Jun 16, 20204 min read
What is AFRID?
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, or ARFID, is characterized by staying away from certain foods or eating very little food.
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Jun 5, 20203 min read
What 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.
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May 15, 20203 min read
What 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.
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Mar 5, 20209 min read
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Bulimia Nervosa (BN) is binge eating, followed by purging. Purging is anything that overcompensates for the food consumed.
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Feb 29, 20208 min read
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is the fear of becoming fat and/or perceiving yourself as fat when you aren't necessarily so.
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Feb 26, 20206 min read
What 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.
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