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Binge eating is now top disorder The most common eating disorder is neither anorexia nor bulimia - it is binge eating, by far. Binge eating is consuming unusually large amounts of food in a short period of time at least twice a week. The researchers found that 3.5 percent of women and 2 percent of men had been binge eaters. Binge eating seems to be a more stubborn condition. People who reported binge eating said they had it for eight years on average, compared with 1.7 years for anorexia. "That was very surprising because one of the things we thought we knew about anorexia was that it was chronic and tended to persist for long periods of time," Hudson said. "Binge eating was thought to kind of come and go. These data suggest that's not the case." Not surprisingly, binge eaters were at increased risk for obesity. more

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