Binge Eating Disorder (BED) Risk and Treatment

Eating Disorders, Risk and Treatment.
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Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
Eating disorders are severe mental conditions that interfere with eating and how individuals think about food, weight, shape eating, and eating behaviors. These conditions can affect anyone of any age, background, and color. These conditions affect individuals mentally and physically. These disorders include; binge eating, bulimia, Anorexia, and Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. When not controlled, these disorders can cause long-term health problems and in some cases even death. This paper will focus on Binge eating.
Binge eating is a disorder characterized by individuals eating large amounts of food at once normally caused by emotions, attitudes, and psychological changes such as loss. According to Linardon (2023), binge eating is the most common disorder where individuals feel they have no control over food. They do not throw up excess food in their system. This causes their body to adapt to eating excessive food. Further, binge eating lifetime prevalence for females ranges from 2.5%-4.5%, and for men ranges from 1%-3% (Linardon, 2023). The doctor or family members may notice an increase in weight, emotions, and the desire to eat a lot of food than they were eating before.
Risk Factors
BED occurs in episodes and its risk can be genetic and from family history. This includes sexual or physical trauma in the home, emotional abuse, and neglect, other negative situations invol...