Binge Eating: Should it Be Classified as a Mental Disorder?

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Is binge eating a form of addiction? That is one question that was asked by a reporter for the LA Times in a recent article. To classify it as such would be to recognize it as a mental disorder. There is a psychiatric debate over whether or not to recognize the roughly 7.3 million adults as having a mental disorder that leads them to consume unheard of amounts of food to satisfy something unexplained.

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