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| eating disorder in which people fail to maintain body weights that are normal for their age and height and have fears of becoming fat, distorted body images, and amenorrhea |
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| restricting type of anorexia nervosa |
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| type of anorexia nervosa in which weight gain is prevented by refusal to eat |
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| binge/purge type of anorexia nervosa |
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| type of anorexia nervosa in which periodic bingeing or purging behaviors occur along with behaviors that meet the criteria for anorexia nervosa |
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| eating disorder in which people engage in bingeing and behave in ways to prevent weight gain from the binges, such as self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, and abuse of purging drugs (such as laxatives) |
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| eating a large amount of food in one sitting |
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| binge eating disorder (BED) |
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| eating disorder in which people compulsively overeat either continuously or on discrete binges but do not behave in ways to compensate for the overeating |
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| other specified feeding or eating disorder |
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| presentations of an eating disorder that cause clinically significant distress or impairment but do not meet the full diagnostic criteria for any of the eating disorders otherwise identified |
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| atypical anorexia nervosa |
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| disorder characterized by all the criteria for anorexia nervosa except that despite significant weight loss, the weight of the affected individual remains within or above the normal range |
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| an eating disorder characterized by the regular intake of excessive amounts of food after dinner and into the night |
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| condition of being significantly overweight, defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or over, where BMI is calculated as weight in pounds multiplied by 703, then divided by the square of height in inches |
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