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Binge Eating Disorder
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This disorder recently defined in DMS IV describes a group of patients who binge eat at high body weights, i.e. they binge eat but do not indulge in compensatory mechanisms to prevent weight gain. Treatment needs to be long term, the initial treatment entailing a period of weight maintenance with the development of regular eating patterns followed by a very long period of gradual weight loss.
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