I apologize for the lack of blog posts over the past couple of days, i haven't had chance to sit down!
Today s post will be about less common eating disorders. The one's that aren't anorexia or bulimia so nobody seems to talk about.
Orthorexia - A person suffering with orthorexia will only eat foods that they think to be 'healthy' 'safe' or 'clean' and avoiding foods the deem as unhealthy. So not eating chocolates/crisps and perhaps eating only organic, sugar-free foods.
Drunkorexia - I'm not entirely sure on the in's and outs of this one but drunkorexia is literally restricting foods in order to be able to binge drink without gaining weight from the excessive alcohol consumption. It is also when alcohol is used to suppress your appetite and therefor lose weight.
Night eating syndrome - "People with night eating syndrome are characterized as people that put off eating until late in the day, who binge on food in the evenings and who experience problems with falling asleep and/or staying awake" (source)
Binge eating disorder - If you haven't guessed this is when a person binge-eats. Consuming large amounts of food on a regular basis, usually in a short period of time even if the person is not hungry.
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Eating disorder not otherwise specified - (EDNOS) A person with EDNOS will show signs and symptoms of either one of more eating disorders but down not meet all the criteria to be diagnosed as only anorexic. For an example, if someone meets all the other diagnostic criteria for anorexia but still menstruates they would be diagnosed with EDNOS.
All eating disorders are serious, regardless of somebodies weight/size and no matter how much or how little they are eating all of the disorders can and will cause damage to a persons body.
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