Definition of Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are a group of serious conditions in which you're so preoccupied with food and weight that you can often focus on little else. The main types of eating disorders are :

• Anorexia nervosa, in which you become too thin, but you don't eat enough because you think you are fat

• Bulimia nervosa, involving periods of overeating followed by purging, sometimes through self-induced vomiting or using laxatives
• Binge-eating, which is out-of-control eating

Women are more likely than men to have eating disorders. Following two factors demonstrate how common this problem is:

• Statistics show that 1 in 5 women suffer from an eating disorder.

• Eating disorder 24 million American and 70 million worldwide.
  

Eating disorder is a sever behavior problem. Eating disorders can cause heart and kidney problems and even death.

http://eatingdisorderinfo.org/

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/eatingdisorders.html