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Binge Eating Now Recognized
Posted on February 06, 2007
When I suggested to my dissertation committee almost 20 years ago that I wanted to do research on binge eating in women over 30, they told me that I really meant bulimia. No, I insisted, I wanted to do a study of binge eating and stress, not bulimia. I had to keep making this case over and over again as each member and many of the professionals with whom I consulted told me that there was no such thing as a problem with binge eating that needed to be studied. I should study bulimia, they suggested. I stuck to my resolve to study binge eating and I found it in about half of the 512 women wh...
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