Other Eating Disorders

There are many other eating disorders besides the main ones, Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.

• Binge Eating Disorder (BED) - Compulsive eating, characterized by binge eating, without offsetting behavior.
• Compulsive Overeating (COE) - Eating way more than your body actually needs.
• Purging Disorder - Characterized by recurrent purging to control weight or shape in the absence of binge eating episodes.
• Rumination - Characterized by involving the repeated regurgitation of food following a meal which is then either re-chewed and re-swallowed or discarded.
• Orthorexia Nervosa - A term used by Steven Bratman to characterize an obsession with a "pure" diet, where it interferes with a person’s life.
• Diabulimia - Characterized by the deliberate manipulation of insulin levels by diabetics in an effort to control their weight.
• Food Maintenance - Characterized by a set of abnormal eating behaviors of children in foster care.
• Night Eating Syndrome - Characterized by morning anorexia, evening polyphagia frequently associated with insomnia and injury to the hypothalamus.
• Pica - Characterized by a compulsive craving for eating, chewing or licking nonfood items or foods containing no nutrition. These can include such things as chalk, paper, plaster, paint chips, baking soda, starch, glue, rust, ice, coffee grounds, and cigarette ashes. These individuals cannot tell the difference between food and nonfood items.
• Eating Disorders Not Other Specified (EDNOS) - It can refer to a number of disorders. It can refer to a female who suffers for anorexia but still has her period, someone who may be at a healthy weigh, but who has anorexic thought patterns and behaviors, it can mean the sufferer equally participates in some anorexic as well as bulimic behaviors (sometimes referred to a purge-type anorexia), or to any combination of Eating Disorder behaviors which do not directly put them in a separate category.