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Disordered Eating: The New Eating Disorder
Posted by Marisa Belger on January 23, 2006 - 4:00pm.
Some people overeat when they’re home alone; others pig out when they should be sleeping. Until recently these forms of extreme eating couldn’t compete with the physical and emotional havoc brought on by anorexia and bulimia.
Though less life threatening than the better-known disorders, binge-eating disorder and night-eating syndrome are two compulsive eating behaviors that researchers are studying more closely. Binge eaters consume up to a day’s worth of calories in two hours or less and night eaters ingest 25 percent of their daily calories after dinner, as a bedtime snack, or by waking up in the middle of the night to eat.
It is estimated that two percent of the general population suffers from some form of disordered eating — more than anorexia and equal to bulimia. The extra calories consumed during these binges can lead to weight gain as well as an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, sleep apnea, and some cancers.
The LA Times offers tips and suggestions (scroll down) for diagnosing and treating disordered eating.
When do you like to snack? Four p.m. is my favorite hour.
[via LA Times]
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I usually need a snack in the afternoon – three or four PM. Otherwise I get tired and disinterested.
Last night I DID eat a few slices of turkey less than an hour before bed. I wasn’t even hungry. What gives, self?
I’m telling you.. they will stop the craving of sweets in the late afternoon.
Nuts are good. I also like to have an apple. Or a fruit of some other type. Big yogurt guy lately, too. I’ve never been a yogurt guy before.
I have tried the nuts but they don’t work unless they are in a cookie or brownie. I just like to have my afternoon sweet…which I guess is better than the late night snack…which I can now talk myself out of because of having the afternoon snack. Years of therapy have helped!
I myself am trying to break that habit. I notice that I do alot of my eating in the evening. I go to bed full, and wake up full. Now, this doesn’t truly pose a problem to me seeing that I don’t gain any weight from it, but I believe that it isn’t the best practice. It has become my new years resolution to be a bit more fit and more muscle defined, so I have stopped my late night purges and going to bed earlier. Unfortunately I don’t get to have dinner until late, so I must still eat that late, but I’ve given up on my slothy behavior and keep the late night snacks out. And if I do sucumb to eating, I’m making it a point to do it healthy and protien based and not carb based. Horrible for a chocolate lover.