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  2. Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder - Wikipedia

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    Avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder is not simple "picky eating" commonly seen in toddlers and young children, which usually resolves on its own. [ 2] In ARFID, the behaviors are so severe that they lead to nutritional deficiencies, poor weight gain (or significant weight loss), and/or significant interference with "psychosocial functioning."

  3. Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale - Wikipedia

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    The Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale ( EDDS) is a self-report questionnaire that assesses the presence of three eating disorders; anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. It was adapted by Stice et al. in 2000 from the validated structured psychiatric interview: The Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) and the eating disorder ...

  4. Pica (disorder) - Wikipedia

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    Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food. [ 2] It is classified as an eating disorder but can also be the result of an existing mental disorder. [ 3] The ingested or craved substance may be biological, natural or manmade. The term was drawn directly from the medieval Latin word for magpie, a bird subject to much folklore ...

  5. Atypical anorexia nervosa - Wikipedia

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    Atypical anorexia nervosa. Atypical anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which individuals meet all the qualifications for anorexia nervosa, including a body image disturbance and a history of restrictive eating and weight loss, except that they are not currently underweight. [ 1] Atypical anorexia qualifies as a mental health disorder in ...

  6. Feeding disorder - Wikipedia

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    Feeding disorder. A feeding disorder, in infancy or early childhood, is a child's refusal to eat certain food groups, textures, solids or liquids for a period of at least one month, which causes the child to not gain enough weight, grow naturally or cause any developmental delays. [1] Feeding disorders resemble failure to thrive, except that at ...

  7. Other specified feeding or eating disorder - Wikipedia

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    Psychiatry. Other specified feeding or eating disorder ( OSFED) is a subclinical DSM-5 category that, along with unspecified feeding or eating disorder (UFED), replaces the category formerly called eating disorder not otherwise specified ( EDNOS) in the DSM-IV-TR. [1] It captures feeding disorders and eating disorders of clinical severity that ...

  8. A New Form Of Disordered Eating, Orthorexia, Is On The Rise ...

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    Compared to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, in which a person’s primary motivation might be to change the look of their body, orthorexia typically starts with the goal to eat the ...

  9. Binge eating disorder - Wikipedia

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    Binge eating disorder ( BED) is an eating disorder characterized by frequent and recurrent binge eating episodes with associated negative psychological and social problems, but without the compensatory behaviors common to bulimia nervosa, OSFED, or the binge-purge subtype of anorexia nervosa . BED is a recently described condition, [ 8] which ...