Quick Quiz: Eating Disorders

Below, some definitions taken/clipped from Wikipedia's eating disorders pages. And here's a job or you: name that disorder.

1. Recurring binge eating at least once a week for over a period of 3 months while experiencing lack of control and guilt after overeating

2. Lack of maintenance of a healthy body weight, an obsessive fear of gaining weight or refusal to do so, and an unrealistic perception, or non-recognition of the seriousness, of current low body weight.

3. Recurrent binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors such as purging (self-induced vomiting, eating to the point of vomiting, excessive use of laxatives/diuretics, or excessive exercise).

4. Persistent eating of non-food items.

5. Repeated regurgitation of most meals following consumption, due to the involuntary contraction of the muscles around the abdomen.

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1. Binge eating disorder
2. Anorexia nervosa
3. Bulimia nervosa
4. Pica
5. Rumination disorder