Disordered eating

Disordered eating describes a variety of abnormal eating behaviors that, by themselves, do not warrant diagnosis of an eating disorder.

Disordered eating includes behaviors that are common features of eating disorders, such as:

Disordered eating also includes behaviors that are not characteristic of a specific eating disorder, such as:

Irregular, chaotic eating patterns.
Ignoring physical feelings of hunger and satiety (fullness).^[1]
Use of diet pills.^[4]
Emotional eating.^[5]
Night eating.^[5]
Secretive food concocting: the consumption of embarrassing food combinations, such as mashed potatoes mixed with sandwich cookies.^[6] See also Food craving § Pregnancy and Nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder § Symptoms and behaviors.

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