Binge Eating Disorder Research Paper

Binge-eating disorder is a severe eating disorder which occurs when you over consume a large amount of foods in one sitting and not able to stop yourself from eating even when you have reached an uncomfortable feeling of fullest. Sufficiently, majority of the peoples tend to overeat more occasionally when it comes to special occasion and holidays like Thanksgiving. For most people’s having seconds or thirds for the Thanksgiving dinner is okay, because it an once in a while event. The only time when you have excessively overeaten to the point that, “you feel out of control and become a regular occurrence crosses the line to binge eating disorder”. (mayoclinic.org). If you or someone you know have this disorder seek a professional for help and …show more content…
was first discovered in 1959 by psychiatrist Albert Stunkard. “Stunkard describes an eating pattern marked by consuming large amounts of foods at irregular intervals. He observed that some of these episodes were linked to night eating.” (healthline.com).The causes of binge eating disorder is unknown, but there are variety of factors that influence the development of this disorder. The biological, psychological, social and cultural are the causes that progress to binge eating disorder. The biological can be associated with compulsive eating and the struggles with food addiction, while the psychological aspect can be related to depression due to low self-esteem and oppression of the body. The social and cultural may originated from past traumatic situation that impulses the individual to binge eating, also social pressure can enhance the probability of binge eating due to the burden of fitting in or explicit comments about your weight size. “Researchers also are looking into possible abnormal functioning of chemical messages to the brain involving hormones that regulate appetite (such as leptin and ghrelin) and proteins that regulate blood sugar and body metabolism (such as adiponectin).” …show more content…
The criteria for diagnosis binge eating disorder are the following: “recurrent episodes of eating an abnormally large amount of food, feeling a lack of control during bingeing, such as how much you’re eating and whether you stop eating, binge eating that’s associated with at least three of these factor: eating rapidly, eating until you’re uncomfortably full; eating large amounts when you’re not hungry; eating alone out of embarrassment; or feeling disgusted, depressed or guilty after eating, concern about your binge eating, binge eating at least once a week for a least three months, binge eating that’s not associated with purging, such as self-induced vomiting, or other compensating behavior to lose weight, such as excessive exercise or laxative use”. (mayoclinic.org). In-order for you have a successful diagnosis, you must tell all important details about your binge eating disorder to your doctor so that he or she can assess the proper treatment needed for this