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| Eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive (binge) eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food (for example, deliberate vomiting, laxative abuse, and excessive exercise). |
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| Relatively brief episode of uncontrolled, excessive consumption, usually of food or alcohol. |
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| Eating disorder characterized by recurrent food refusal, leading to dangerously low body weight. |
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| Excess of body fat resulting in a body mass index (a ratio of weight to height) of 30 or more. |
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| In the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, the self-induced vomiting or laxative abuse used to compensate for excessive food ingestion. |
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| binge-eating disorder (BED) |
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| Pattern of eating involving distress-inducing binges not followed by purging behaviors; being considered as a new DSM diagnostic category. |
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| Consuming a third or more of daily food intake after the evening meal and getting out of bed at least once during the night to have a high-calorie snack. In the morning, individuals with night eating syndrome are not hungry and do not usually eat breakfast. These individuals do not binge during their night eating and seldom purge. |
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| Surgical approach to extreme obesity, usually accomplished by stapling the stomach to create a small stomach pouch or bypassing the stomach through gastric bypass surgery. |
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