单词 | binge eating |
释义 | binge eatingn. The action of consuming a large quantity of food in a short period of time, often as part of an eating disorder. ΚΠ 1959 A. J. Stunkard in Psychiatric Q. 33 ii. 290 Binge-eating..appears to occur during periods of life stress. 1987 A. M. Colman Facts, Fallacies & Frauds in Psychol. vi. 154 The cardinal symptom of bulimia nervosa is binge eating, usually followed by vomiting. 2003 Time 13 Oct. 93/4 Frequent dieters gained..more..than their peers who did not diet. The likely reason?.. Restrictive diets that led to cycles of binge eating. Compounds binge-eating disorder n. an eating disorder characterized by frequent episodes of binge-eating, esp. (in later use) when not followed by purging (cf. binge-and-purge n. and adj. at binge n.2 Additions). ΚΠ 1981 PR Newswire (Nexis) 14 Sept. Fifteen to 20 percent of America's college women have ‘some involvement’ with a bizarre binge-eating disorder in which they alternately gorge on food and then force themselves to vomit. 1992 M. G. Perri et al. Improving Long-term Managem. of Obesity ii. 46 The authors applied the proposed diagnostic criteria for binge-eating disorder (which are similar to those for bulimia nervosa but exclude compensatory behaviors such as purging). 2005 Afro-American (Baltimore) (Electronic ed.) 5–11 Mar. a5 Men represent 5 to 15 percent of people with anorexia or bulimia and an estimated 35 percent of those with binge-eating disorder. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1959 |
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