Binge eating disorder (BED) was originally included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV) as a provisional eating disorder diagnosis within the category of Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. It is now listed as a free-standing diagnosis among the proposed Draft Revisions to DSM Disorders and Criteria for DSM-5. BED is defined by recurrent binge eating (once a week, on average, over the previous 3 months) without the regular use of inappropriate compensatory weight control methods. Binge eating itself is characterized by (a) eating, in a discrete period of time, an amount of food that is unambiguously greater than most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar conditions, and (b) a sense of lack of control over eating durin...

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