Is binge eating a psychiatric disorder?

Monday, November 23, 2009 - 03:14 in Psychology & Sociology

As the American Psychiatrics Assn. considers including it in its diagnotic manual, skeptics object and possible treatments are debated. Rina Silverman's refrigerator is almost always empty. She keeps it that way to avert episodes of frantic food consumption, often at night after a full meal, in which she tastes nothing and feels nothing but can polish off a party-sized bag of chips or...

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