Incidences of developing eating disorders due to Binge Eating

Authors

  • Sadaf Ahmed Advance Educational Institute & Research Center
  • Shamoon Noushad Advance Educational Institute & Research Center
  • Syed Zain Azher Advance Educational Institute & Research Center
  • Shaikh Mohammad Tahir Advance Educational Institute & Research Center

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29052/IJEHSR.v2.i2.2014.123-127

Keywords:

Eating Disorder, Binge Eating, Bulimia Nervosa, Craving, Appetite.

Abstract

Binge eating or chaotic eating refers to unhealthy eating patterns that are found in low incidences comparatively to verify and diagnosed eating disorders. Altered eating behaviors may lead to severe eating disorders like Binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa that could be life threaten if left undiagnosed The purpose of this study is to investigate unordered or binge eating attitudes among individuals with respect to their eating patterns. An observational study has been done in which a randomized data of 120 individuals have been selected within a group of 24 males and 96 females with the help of a questionnaire based survey on food habits, preference of type of food intake, tea consumption, munching habits, workplace or home eating and eating during working hours. R Results were analyzed on the basis of percentage values and SPSS 17.0 different associations between variables. out of 120 people 58.3%of the individuals including both genders did not have a feeling of fullness, 50.83 % of the total individuals eat during working hours and possess munching habit, 83% use to eat biscuits to munch .Unordered eating patterns also affect the frequency of bowel movements, 58.30% people have bowel movements once a time. Irregular eating and munching habits does not initiate a feeling of fullness in the beginning of a meal, due to binge eating people do get satisfied by the smell of food and did not take a proper meal to fulfill nourishment requirements. However, binge eating lead to increase appetite as the munching material including snacks digest quickly which cause more food intake and people did not get fully satisfied by the smell of food only and excessive tea intake is one of the contributing factors. Binge eating affects normal appetite, eating attitudes and Bowel movements which may further lead to severe eating disorders like Bulimia nervosa which should be clarified early instead left undiagnosed.

 

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Published

2014-12-01

How to Cite

Ahmed , S., Noushad , S., Azher, S. Z., & Shaikh Mohammad Tahir. (2014). Incidences of developing eating disorders due to Binge Eating. International Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research, 2(2), 123–127. https://doi.org/10.29052/IJEHSR.v2.i2.2014.123-127

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