For older generation the term binge meant drinking to excess. In the mid century, binge then meant principally ‘a heavy drinking bout, hence a spree.’
Today the word more often means eating to excess, or overeating. It is characterized by repeated bouts of excessive food intake or ‘binges’.
The binge eating occurs, on a average, at least 2 days per week for 6 months. The research shows there’s no difference between once-weekly bingers and those who meat this twice-weekly standard.
With binge eating these problems are simply not there and so it is a completely different kind of eating disorder compared to the others.
In fact it is because the person seems to be eating that many people often do not realize that the sufferer is actually having a problem.
Binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
*Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g. within any 2 hours period). An amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstance.
*A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g. a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating.
For those who chose to binge eat they will not only be placing considerable amounts of strain on their body including the digestive system. But they also place considerable amounts of strain on to their heart as well.
Binge is a psychologically rather than physiologically determined behaviors: a patients frequently binge when they are not hungry and continue even after they are uncomfortably full.
Everybody eat a little more than normal at some stage especially during the Christmas and holiday periods, but this is considered to be quite normal. However for a binge eater the problem they have is that they will have no control over preventing themselves from eating too much on a very regular basis.
Binge behaviors looks different across the weight spectrum. Binge eaters can be divided into two groups based on weight: those who are of moderate weight, and those who are obsess.
The rapid increase in binge eating disorder and its predominance in urban centers suggest that cultural factors are relevant. Western culture has fostered the idealization of thinness and self-discontent. Advertising fosters the possibility of a self ‘makeover’ given the expenditure of enough resources.
Binge eating disorder
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